Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 45
When he stood with his head among the clouds, he was quite alone, and had been so for hundreds of years, and would be so forever.
Who acts: Antaeus · What happens: stand, be · To what, where: clouds
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), 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 stood | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 head | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obl |
| 7 | among | among | ADP | _ | 9 clouds | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 clouds | det |
| 9 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stood | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 alone | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 alone | cop |
| 13 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 14 alone | advmod |
| 14 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 3 stood | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 forever | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 forever | cc |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 forever | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 forever | cop |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 forever | advmod |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 hundreds | case |
| 21 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 forever | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 years | case |
| 23 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 hundreds | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 forever | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 forever | cc |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 forever | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 forever | cop |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 forever | advmod |
| 29 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 3 stood | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Antaeus | the clouds | with Antaeus's head | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among cloud=Location | |||
| 2 | is | past | Antaeus | alone property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | would · past · perfect | for hundreds of years; forever property | 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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