Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 28
With the tornado of his breath, he could have stripped the roofs from a hundred dwellings and sent thousands of the inhabitants whirling through the air.
Who acts: Antaeus, inhabitants · What happens: strip, send, whirl · To what, where: roofs, hundred dwellings, thousands, air
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, inhabitants), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 tornado | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tornado | det |
| 3 | tornado | tornado | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stripped | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 breath | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 breath | nmod:poss |
| 6 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tornado | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 tornado | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stripped | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 stripped | aux |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 stripped | aux |
| 11 | stripped | strip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 roofs | det |
| 13 | roofs | roof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stripped | obj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 dwellings | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 hundred | det |
| 16 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 dwellings | nummod |
| 17 | dwellings | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stripped | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sent | cc |
| 19 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 stripped | conj |
| 20 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 sent | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 inhabitants | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 inhabitants | det |
| 23 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 thousands | nmod |
| 24 | whirling | whirl | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 inhabitants | acl |
| 25 | through | through | ADP | _ | 27 air | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 air | det |
| 27 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 whirling | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 stripped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strip | could · perfect | Antaeus | the roofs | hundred dwellings | with the tornado of Antaeus's breath | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent roof=Theme from dwelling=Source | ||
| 2 | send | past | Antaeus not said here | thousands of the inhabitants | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Theme | ||||
| 3 | whirl | gerund | the inhabitants not said here | the air | vn coil-9.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Destination |
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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