Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 26

It was a happy circumstance that Antaeus was the Pygmy people's friend; for there was more strength in his little finger than in ten million of such bodies as this.

Who acts: ear, Antaeus · What happens: be · To what, where: happy circumstance, friend, more strength, little finger

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 (ear, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 circumstance	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 circumstance	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 circumstance	det
4	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 circumstance	amod
5	circumstance	circumstance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 friend	mark
7	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 friend	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 friend	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 people	det
10	Pygmy	pygmy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 people	amod
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 friend	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 people	case
13	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 circumstance	advcl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 strength	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 was	mark
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 was	expl
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 strength	cop
18	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 strength	amod
19	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 circumstance	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 finger	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 finger	nmod:poss
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 finger	amod
23	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 strength	nmod
24	than	than	ADP	_	27 million	case
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 million	case
26	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 million	compound
27	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 strength	nmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 bodies	case
29	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 bodies	amod
30	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 million	nmod
31	as	as	ADP	_	32 this	case
32	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 bodies	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 circumstance	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	ear	a happy circumstance and more strength			tree rules
2	is a	past	Antaeus	the Pygmy people's friend			tree rules
3	is a	past	ear not said here	more strength	Antaeus's little finger	than ten million of such bodies as this	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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