Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 47

But with the Pygmies he was the most sportive and humorous, and merry-hearted, and sweet-tempered old Giant that ever washed his face in a wet cloud.

Who acts: Antaeus · What happens: be, temper, wash · To what, where: face, wet cloud

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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 sportive	cc
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 Pygmies	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Pygmies	det
4	Pygmies	Pygmy	PROPN	Number=Plur	9 sportive	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sportive	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sportive	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sportive	det
8	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	9 sportive	advmod
9	sportive	sportive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 humorous	cc
11	humorous	humorous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sportive	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hearted	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 hearted	cc
14	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hearted	amod
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 merry	punct
16	hearted	hearted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sportive	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 tempered	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 tempered	cc
19	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 tempered	amod
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 sweet	punct
21	tempered	temper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 sportive	parataxis
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Giant	amod
23	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 tempered	xcomp
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 washed	obj
25	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	26 washed	advmod
26	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 Giant	acl:relcl
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 face	nmod:poss
28	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 washed	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 cloud	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 cloud	det
31	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 cloud	amod
32	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 washed	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sportive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Antaeus				with the Pygmies; sportive property	tree rules
2	be		Antaeus not said here					tree rules
3	be		Antaeus not said here					tree rules
4	temper	participle					giant property	tree rules
5	wash	past		Antaeus's face	a wet cloud	ever		vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent that=Beneficiary face=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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