Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 39

But this was one of those unlucky accidents for which nobody is to blame; so that the small folks never took it to heart, and only requested the Giant to be careful forever afterwards to examine the acre of ground where he intended to squat himself.

Who acts: this, nobody, small folks, Antaeus · What happens: be, not take, request, examine, intend, squat · To what, where: one, review, Giant, acre, Antaeus

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 (this, nobody, small folks, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 one	cc
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 one	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 one	cop
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 accidents	case
6	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 accidents	det
7	unlucky	unlucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 accidents	amod
8	accidents	accident	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 one	nmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 which	case
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 blame	obl
11	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 blame	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 blame	cop
13	to	to	PART	_	14 blame	mark
14	blame	blame	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 accidents	acl:relcl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 took	punct
16	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	22 took	mark
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 so	fixed
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 folks	det
19	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 folks	amod
20	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 took	nsubj
21	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	22 took	advmod
22	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 blame	parataxis
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 took	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 heart	mark
25	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 took	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 requested	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 requested	cc
28	only	only	ADV	_	29 requested	advmod
29	requested	request	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 took	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Giant	det
31	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 requested	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	34 careful	mark
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 careful	cop
34	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 requested	advcl
35	forever	forever	ADV	_	36 afterwards	advmod
36	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	34 careful	advmod
37	to	to	PART	_	38 examine	mark
38	examine	examine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 careful	advcl
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 acre	det
40	acre	acre	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 examine	obj
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 ground	case
42	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 acre	nmod
43	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	45 intended	advmod
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 intended	nsubj
45	intended	intend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 ground	acl:relcl
46	to	to	PART	_	47 squat	mark
47	squat	squat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 intended	xcomp
48	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	47 squat	obj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	this	one	of that unlucky accidents	tree rules
2	is	present	nobody		for that unlucky accidents; blame property	tree rules
3	not take	past	the small folks	review		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	request	past	the small folks not said here	the Giant		vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent giant=Recipient
5	is	to-infinitive	the small folks not said here		afterwards, careful property	tree rules
6	examine	to-infinitive	the small folks not said here	the acre of ground		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent acre=Theme
7	intend	past	Antaeus			vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	squat not said to happen	to-infinitive	Antaeus not said here	Antaeus		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme himself=Location

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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