Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 23

The Pygmies loved to talk with Antaeus; and fifty times a day, one or another of them would turn up his head, and shout through the hollow of his fists, "Halloo, brother Antaeus!

Who acts: Pygmies, fifty times · What happens: love, talk, turn up, shout · To what, where: head, hollow

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 (Pygmies, fifty times), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Pygmies	det
2	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 loved	nsubj
3	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 talk	mark
5	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 loved	xcomp
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 Antaeus	case
7	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 talk	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 turn	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 turn	cc
10	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 times	nummod
11	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 turn	nsubj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 times	nmod:unmarked
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 one	punct
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 day	appos
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 another	cc
17	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	15 one	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 another	nmod
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 turn	aux
21	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 loved	conj
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 turn	compound:prt
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 head	nmod:poss
24	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 turn	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 shout	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 shout	cc
27	shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 loved	conj
28	through	through	ADP	_	30 hollow	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 hollow	det
30	hollow	hollow	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 shout	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 fists	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 fists	nmod:poss
33	fists	fist	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 hollow	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 Halloo	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 Halloo	punct
36	Halloo	halloo	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 fists	appos
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 brother	punct
38	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 Halloo	conj
39	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 brother	appos
40	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 loved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	love	past	the Pygmies				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	talk not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Pygmies not said here			with Antaeus	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with antaeus=Co-Agent
3	turn up	would	fifty times a day	Antaeus's head			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme
4	shout speech: express	present	the Pygmies not said here		the hollow of Antaeus's fists		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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