Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 21
But at noonday in a clear atmosphere, when the sun shone brightly over him, the Giant Antaeus presented a very grand spectacle.
Who acts: sun, Giant Antaeus · What happens: shine, present · To what, where: grand spectacle, noonday
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 (sun, Giant Antaeus), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 presented | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 noonday | case |
| 3 | noonday | noonday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 presented | obl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 atmosphere | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 atmosphere | det |
| 6 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 atmosphere | amod |
| 7 | atmosphere | atmosphere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 noonday | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 shone | punct |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 shone | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sun | det |
| 11 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shone | nsubj |
| 12 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 atmosphere | parataxis |
| 13 | brightly | brightly | ADV | _ | 12 shone | advmod |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 shone | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 presented | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Antaeus | det |
| 18 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Antaeus | amod |
| 19 | Antaeus | Antaeus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 presented | nsubj |
| 20 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 spectacle | det |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 grand | advmod |
| 23 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 spectacle | amod |
| 24 | spectacle | spectacle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 presented | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 presented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | past | the sun | over Giant; brightly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over he=Location | ||||
| 2 | present | past | the Giant Antaeus | a grand spectacle | noonday in a clear atmosphere | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spectacle=Theme |
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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