Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 44

No creature of his own size had ever talked with him, in thunder-like accents, face to face.

What happens: talk · To what, where: creature, like accents

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: 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 creature	det
2	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 talked	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 size	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 size	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 size	amod
6	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 creature	nmod
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 talked	aux
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 talked	advmod
9	talked	talk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 talked	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 accents	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	17 accents	case
14	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 like	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 thunder	punct
16	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 accents	amod
17	accents	accent	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 talked	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 face	punct
19	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 accents	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 face	case
21	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 face	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 talked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past · perfect · passive		no creature of Antaeus's own size		like accents and face to face	ever	with Antaeus	tree rules

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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