Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 54
On all their holidays, the Pygmies had excellent sport with Antaeus.
Who acts: Pygmies · What happens: have · To what, where: excellent sport, holidays
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 (Pygmies), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 holidays | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 holidays | det:predet |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 holidays | nmod:poss |
| 4 | holidays | holiday | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 had | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 holidays | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Pygmies | det |
| 7 | Pygmies | pygmy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sport | amod |
| 10 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 Antaeus | case |
| 12 | Antaeus | Antaeus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 sport | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Pygmies | excellent sport | comfort's holidays | with Antaeus | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sport=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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