Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 19
He was so very tall that he carried a pine tree, which was eight feet through the butt, for a walking stick.
Who acts: Giant, pine tree · What happens: be, carry · To what, where: pine tree, butt, eight feet
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Giant, pine tree), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tall | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tall | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 tall | advmod |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 tall | advmod |
| 5 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 carried | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 carried | nsubj |
| 8 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tall | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 tree | det |
| 10 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tree | compound |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 carried | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 feet | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 feet | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 feet | cop |
| 15 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 feet | nummod |
| 16 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 tree | conj |
| 17 | through | through | ADP | _ | 19 butt | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 butt | det |
| 19 | butt | butt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 carried | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 stick | punct |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 stick | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 stick | det |
| 23 | walking | walking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stick | compound |
| 24 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 carried | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Giant | tall property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | carry | past | Giant | a pine tree and eight feet | the butt | for a walking stick | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme | ||
| 3 | is a | past | a pine tree and eight feet | eight feet | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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