Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 55

He often stretched himself out at full length on the ground, where he looked like the long ridge of a hill; and it was a good hour's walk, no doubt, for a short-legged Pygmy to journey from head to foot of the Giant.

Who acts: Earth, hill · What happens: stretch out, look, be · To what, where: Earth, full length, walk

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 (Earth, hill), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stretched	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 stretched	advmod
3	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 stretched	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	3 stretched	compound:prt
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 length	case
7	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 length	amod
8	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stretched	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 ground	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ground	det
11	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 length	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 looked	punct
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 looked	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 looked	nsubj
15	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 ground	acl:relcl
16	like	like	ADP	_	19 ridge	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ridge	det
18	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 ridge	amod
19	ridge	ridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 looked	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 hill	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 hill	det
22	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ridge	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 walk	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 walk	cc
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 walk	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 walk	cop
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 hour	det
28	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 hour	amod
29	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 walk	nmod:poss
30	's	's	PART	_	29 hour	case
31	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stretched	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 doubt	punct
33	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	34 doubt	det
34	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 walk	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 Pygmy	punct
36	for	for	ADP	_	41 Pygmy	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 Pygmy	det
38	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 legged	amod
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 short	punct
40	legged	legged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 Pygmy	amod
41	Pygmy	pygmy	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 walk	conj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 journey	mark
43	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 Pygmy	conj
44	from	from	ADP	_	45 head	case
45	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 journey	nmod
46	to	to	ADP	_	47 foot	case
47	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 walk	nmod
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 Giant	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 Giant	det
50	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 foot	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stretched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stretch out	past	Earth	Earth	full length on the ground		often property	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
2	look	past	Earth				like the long ridge of a hill	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	is a	past	hill	a good hour's walk and no doubt and a legged Pygmy and journey from head		hour	to foot of the Giant	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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