Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 48

His little friends, like all other small people, had a great opinion of their own importance, and used to assume quite a patronizing air towards the Giant.

Who acts: little friends · What happens: have, use, assume, opine · To what, where: great opinion, patronizing air, own importance

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 (little friends), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg976:482): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 friends	nmod:poss
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 friends	amod
3	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 had	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 people	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	9 people	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 people	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 people	amod
8	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 people	amod
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 friends	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 people	punct
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 opinion	det
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 opinion	amod
14	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 importance	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 importance	nmod:poss
17	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 importance	amod
18	importance	importance	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 opinion	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 used	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 used	cc
21	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 had	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 assume	mark
23	assume	assume	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 used	xcomp
24	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	27 air	det:predet
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 air	det
26	patronizing	patronizing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 air	amod
27	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 assume	obj
28	towards	towards	ADP	_	30 Giant	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Giant	det
30	Giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 air	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	Antaeus's little friends like all other small people	a great opinion of people's own importance		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opinion=Patient
2	use	past	Antaeus's little friends like all other small people not said here			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	assume	to-infinitive	Antaeus's little friends like all other small people not said here	quite patronizing air	towards the Giant	vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme
4	opine			people's own importance		nom opinion «cognition 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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