Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 31

And, on their parts, the Pygmies loved Antaeus with as much affection as their tiny hearts could hold.

Who acts: Pygmies, tiny hearts · What happens: love, hold · To what, where: Antaeus, parts

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, tiny hearts), 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	_	9 loved	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 And	punct
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 parts	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 parts	nmod:poss
5	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 loved	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 parts	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Pygmies	det
8	Pygmies	Pygmy	PROPN	Number=Plur	9 loved	nsubj
9	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 loved	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	14 affection	case
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 affection	case
13	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 affection	amod
14	affection	affection	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 loved	obl
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 hold	mark
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 hearts	nmod:poss
17	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hearts	amod
18	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 hold	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 hold	aux
20	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 loved	advcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 loved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	past	the Pygmies	Antaeus		feet's parts		with much affection	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer antaeus=Stimulus
2	hold	could	feet's tiny hearts						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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