Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 49

"Poor creature!" they said one to another. "

Who acts: creatures · What happens: say · To what, where: one, another · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (creatures), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 creature	punct
2	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 creature	amod
3	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 creature	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 creature	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 said	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 another	case
10	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	8 one	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	creatures = creature	one	another				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Topic to another=Recipient

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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