Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 25

And when the small distant squeak of their voices reached his ear, the Giant would make answer, "Pretty well, brother Pygmy, I thank you," in a thunderous roar that would have shaken down the walls of their strongest temple, only that it came from so far aloft.

Who acts: small distant squeak, ear, Pygmies, voices · What happens: reach, make, thank, shake down, come, squeak · To what, where: thunderous roar, answer, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (small distant squeak, ear, Pygmies, voices), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	10 reached	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 reached	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 squeak	det
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 squeak	amod
5	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 squeak	amod
6	squeak	squeak	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 reached	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 voices	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 voices	nmod:poss
9	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 squeak	nmod
10	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 ear	nmod:poss
12	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 make	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Giant	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Giant	det
15	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ear	conj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 make	aux
17	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 reached	ccomp
18	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 make	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 make	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 Pretty	punct
21	Pretty	pretty	ADV	_	17 make	advmod
22	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 Pretty	fixed
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Pygmy	punct
24	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 Pygmy	compound
25	Pygmy	Pygmy	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 make	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 thank	punct
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 thank	nsubj
28	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 reached	parataxis
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 thank	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 thank	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 thank	punct
32	in	in	ADP	_	35 roar	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 roar	det
34	thunderous	thunderous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 roar	amod
35	roar	roar	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 reached	obl
36	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 shaken	nsubj:pass
37	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 shaken	aux
38	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 shaken	aux
39	shaken	shake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 roar	acl:relcl
40	down	down	ADP	_	39 shaken	compound:prt
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 walls	det
42	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 shaken	obj
43	of	of	ADP	_	46 temple	case
44	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 temple	nmod:poss
45	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	46 temple	amod
46	temple	temple	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 walls	nmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 came	punct
48	only	only	ADV	_	51 came	advmod
49	that	that	SCONJ	_	51 came	mark
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 came	nsubj
51	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 reached	conj
52	from	from	SCONJ	_	55 aloft	mark
53	so	so	ADV	_	55 aloft	advmod
54	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	55 aloft	advmod
55	aloft	aloft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 came	advcl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	the small distant squeak of Halloo's voices			a thunderous roar		tree rules
2	make	would	squeak's ear	answer			brother Pygmy obl; pretty property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset answer=Product
3	thank speech: thank in a quote	present	the Pygmies = pygmy		you			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
4	shake down	would · perfect · passive		a thunderous roar				vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme wall=Destination
5	come	past	ear					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	squeak		Halloo's voices					nom squeak «event intransitive»: of=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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