Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 22

There he used to stand, a perfect mountain of a man, with his great countenance smiling down upon his little brothers, and his one vast eye (which was as big as a cart wheel, and placed right in the center of his forehead) giving a friendly wink to the whole nation at once.

Who acts: Antaeus, great countenance, one vast eye · What happens: use, stand, smile down, be, place, give · To what, where: perfect mountain, center, friendly wink, whole nation

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 (Antaeus, great countenance, one vast eye), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 used	expl
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 used	nsubj
3	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 stand	mark
5	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 used	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mountain	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 mountain	det
8	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mountain	amod
9	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 used	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 man	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 man	det
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mountain	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 countenance	punct
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 countenance	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 countenance	nmod:poss
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 countenance	amod
17	countenance	countenance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 used	obl
18	smiling	smile	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 countenance	acl
19	down	down	ADV	_	18 smiling	advmod
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	23 brothers	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 brothers	nmod:poss
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 brothers	amod
23	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 smiling	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 eye	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 eye	cc
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 eye	nmod:poss
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 eye	nummod
28	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 eye	amod
29	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 used	obl
30	(	(	PUNCT	_	34 big	punct
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 big	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 big	cop
33	as	as	ADV	_	34 big	advmod
34	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 eye	amod
35	as	as	ADP	_	38 wheel	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 wheel	det
37	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 wheel	compound
38	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 big	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 placed	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 placed	cc
41	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 big	conj
42	right	right	ADV	_	45 center	advmod
43	in	in	ADP	_	45 center	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 center	det
45	center	center	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 placed	obl
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 forehead	case
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 forehead	nmod:poss
48	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 center	nmod
49	)	)	PUNCT	_	34 big	punct
50	giving	give	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 eye	acl
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 wink	det
52	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 wink	amod
53	wink	wink	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 giving	obj
54	to	to	ADP	_	57 nation	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 nation	det
56	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 nation	amod
57	nation	nation	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 giving	obl
58	at	at	ADP	_	59 once	case
59	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	50 giving	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	use	past	Antaeus	a perfect mountain of a man		there	with Antaeus's great countenance; Antaeus's one vast eye obl	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	stand	to-infinitive	Antaeus not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	smile down	gerund	Antaeus's great countenance not said here				upon Antaeus's little brothers; down property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	Antaeus's one vast eye				as a cart wheel; big property	tree rules
5	place	participle	Antaeus's one vast eye not said here			the center of Antaeus's forehead		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in center=Destination
6	give	gerund	Antaeus's one vast eye not said here	a friendly wink	the whole nation			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent wink=Theme to nation=Recipient at once=Asset

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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