Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 32

He was always ready to do them any good offices that lay in his power; as for example, when they wanted a breeze to turn their windmills, the Giant would set all the sails a-going with the mere natural respiration of his lungs.

Who acts: Antaeus, good offices, feet, breeze, Giant, sails · What happens: be, do, lay, want, turn, set · To what, where: feet, power, breeze, windmills, sails

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, good offices, feet, breeze), 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 ready	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ready	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 ready	advmod
4	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 do	mark
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ready	xcomp
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 do	obj
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 offices	det
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 offices	amod
10	offices	office	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 do	obj
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 lay	nsubj
12	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 offices	acl:relcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 power	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 power	nmod:poss
15	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lay	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 example	punct
17	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	19 example	case
18	for	for	ADP	_	17 as	fixed
19	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 wanted	punct
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 wanted	advmod
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 wanted	nsubj
23	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ready	parataxis
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 breeze	det
25	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 wanted	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 turn	mark
27	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 wanted	xcomp
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 windmills	nmod:poss
29	windmills	windmill	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 turn	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 set	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Giant	det
32	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 set	nsubj
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 set	aux
34	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ready	conj
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 sails	det:predet
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 sails	det
37	sails	sail	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 set	obj
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 going	det
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 a	punct
40	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 sails	acl
41	with	with	ADP	_	45 respiration	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 respiration	det
43	mere	mere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 respiration	amod
44	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 respiration	amod
45	respiration	respiration	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 going	obl
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 lungs	case
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 lungs	nmod:poss
48	lungs	lung	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 respiration	nmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ready	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Antaeus			always, ready property	tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive	Antaeus not said here	feet = foot		as example	tree rules
3	lay	present	any good offices		Antaeus's power		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in power=Destination
4	want	past	feet = foot	a breeze			tree rules
5	turn not said to happen	to-infinitive	a breeze not said here	feet's windmills			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent windmill=Theme
6	set	would	the Giant	all sails			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient sail=Result
7	go	gerund	all sails not said here			with the mere natural respiration of Antaeus's lungs	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with respiration=Beneficiary
8	respire		Antaeus's lungs				nom respiration «act 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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