Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 33

When the sun was too hot, he often sat himself down, and let his shadow fall over the kingdom, from one frontier to the other; and as for matters in general, he was wise enough to let them alone, and leave the Pygmies to manage their own affairs--which, after all, is about the best thing that great people can do for little ones.

Who acts: sun, shadow, own affairs, great people · What happens: be, sit down, let, fall, leave, manage · To what, where: sun, kingdom, feet, Pygmies, own affairs, best thing

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 (sun, shadow, own affairs, great people), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	6 hot	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sun	det
3	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hot	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hot	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 hot	advmod
6	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sat	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sat	nsubj
9	often	often	ADV	_	10 sat	advmod
10	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hot	conj
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 sat	obj
12	down	down	ADP	_	10 sat	compound:prt
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 let	cc
15	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 sat	advcl
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 shadow	nmod:poss
17	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fall	nsubj
18	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 let	xcomp
19	over	over	ADP	_	21 kingdom	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 kingdom	det
21	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fall	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 frontier	punct
23	from	from	ADP	_	25 frontier	case
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 frontier	nummod
25	frontier	frontier	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fall	obl
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 other	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 other	det
28	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 frontier	nmod
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 wise	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 wise	cc
31	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	33 matters	case
32	for	for	ADP	_	31 as	fixed
33	matters	matter	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 wise	obl
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 general	case
35	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 matters	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 matters	punct
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 wise	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 wise	cop
39	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hot	conj
40	enough	enough	ADV	_	39 wise	advmod
41	to	to	PART	_	42 let	mark
42	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 wise	csubj
43	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 let	obj
44	alone	alone	ADV	_	42 let	advmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 leave	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 leave	cc
47	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 let	conj
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 Pygmies	det
49	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 leave	obj
50	to	to	PART	_	51 manage	mark
51	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 leave	advcl
52	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 affairs	nmod:poss
53	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 affairs	amod
54	affairs	affair	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 manage	obj
55	--	--	PUNCT	_	65 thing	punct
56	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	65 thing	nsubj
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 which	punct
58	after	after	ADP	_	59 all	case
59	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	65 thing	obl
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 all	punct
61	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	65 thing	cop
62	about	about	ADP	_	65 thing	case
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 thing	det
64	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	65 thing	amod
65	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 affairs	appos
66	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	70 do	obj
67	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	68 people	amod
68	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	70 do	nsubj
69	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	70 do	aux
70	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	65 thing	acl:relcl
71	for	for	ADP	_	73 ones	case
72	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	73 ones	amod
73	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	70 do	obl
74	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 hot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the sun				hot property	tree rules
2	sit down	past	sun	sun			often property	tree rules
3	let	infinitive	sun not said here					tree rules
4	fall	present	sun's shadow		the kingdom		from one frontier to the other	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme over kingdom=Initial_Location from frontier=Destination
5	is	past	shadow				as matters in general; enough, wise property	tree rules
6	let	to-infinitive		feet = foot			alone property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
7	leave	infinitive		the Pygmies				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pygmy=Theme
8	manage	to-infinitive		feet's own affairs				vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent affair=Theme
9	is	present	feet's own affairs			after all	about the best thing	tree rules
10	do	can	great people	the best thing			for little ones	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
11	shadow		sun					nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=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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