Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 29
He might have set his immense foot upon a multitude; and when he took it up again, there would have been a pitiful sight, to be sure.
Who acts: Antaeus · What happens: set, take up, be · To what, where: Antaeus, multitude, pitiful sight
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 set | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 set | aux |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 foot | nmod:poss |
| 6 | immense | immense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 foot | amod |
| 7 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | obj |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 multitude | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 multitude | det |
| 10 | multitude | multitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 took | cc |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 took | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 took | nsubj |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | parataxis |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 took | obj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 took | compound:prt |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 took | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 sight | punct |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 26 sight | expl |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 sight | aux |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 sight | aux |
| 23 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 sight | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 sight | det |
| 25 | pitiful | pitiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 sight | amod |
| 26 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | parataxis |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 sure | punct |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 sure | mark |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 sure | cop |
| 30 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 took | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | might · perfect · passive | Antaeus | upon a multitude | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme foot=Destination | ||||
| 2 | take up | past | Antaeus | multitude | again | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | is a | would · perfect | a pitiful sight | there | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | Antaeus not said here | sure property | 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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