Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 40

It is a very pleasant picture to imagine Antaeus standing among the Pygmies, like the spire of the tallest cathedral that ever was built, while they ran about like pismires at his feet; and to think that, in spite of their difference in size, there were affection and sympathy between them and him!

Who acts: review, Pygmies, affection · What happens: be, imagine, stand, build, run about, think · To what, where: pleasant picture, Antaeus, Pygmies, tallest cathedral, feet, that

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 (review, Pygmies, affection), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 picture	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 picture	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 picture	det
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 pleasant	advmod
5	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 picture	amod
6	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 imagine	mark
8	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 picture	acl
9	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 imagine	obj
10	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 imagine	xcomp
11	among	among	ADP	_	13 Pygmies	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Pygmies	det
13	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 standing	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 spire	punct
15	like	like	ADP	_	17 spire	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 spire	det
17	spire	spire	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 standing	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 cathedral	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cathedral	det
20	tallest	tall	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 cathedral	amod
21	cathedral	cathedral	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 spire	nmod
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 built	nsubj:pass
23	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	25 built	advmod
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 built	aux:pass
25	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 cathedral	acl:relcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 ran	punct
27	while	while	SCONJ	_	29 ran	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 ran	nsubj
29	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 picture	parataxis
30	about	about	ADV	_	29 ran	advmod
31	like	like	ADP	_	32 pismires	case
32	pismires	pismire	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 ran	obl
33	at	at	ADP	_	35 feet	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 feet	nmod:poss
35	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 ran	obl
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 think	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 think	cc
38	to	to	PART	_	39 think	mark
39	think	think	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	29 ran	parataxis
40	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	39 think	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 spite	punct
42	in	in	ADP	_	43 spite	case
43	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 think	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 difference	case
45	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 difference	nmod:poss
46	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 spite	nmod
47	in	in	ADP	_	48 size	case
48	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 difference	nmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 were	punct
50	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	51 were	expl
51	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 think	parataxis
52	affection	affection	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 were	nsubj
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 sympathy	cc
54	sympathy	sympathy	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 affection	conj
55	between	between	ADP	_	56 them	case
56	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 sympathy	nmod
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 him	cc
58	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 affection	conj
59	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 picture	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	review	a pleasant picture				tree rules
2	imagine	to-infinitive		Antaeus				tree rules
3	stand	gerund			the Pygmies		like the spire of the tallest cathedral	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among pygmy=Location
4	build	past · passive		the tallest cathedral		ever		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
5	run about	past	Pygmies = pygmy		Antaeus's feet		like pismires; about property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at foot=Trajectory
6	think speech: other	to-infinitive		that	spite of Pygmies's difference in size			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme
7	be	past	affection and sympathy between Pygmies		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	spite			Pygmies's difference in size				nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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