Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 57

So fearless were they, that they made nothing of creeping in among the folds of his garments.

Who acts: Pygmies · What happens: be, make, creep in · To what, where: Pygmies, nothing, folds

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	So	so	ADV	_	2 fearless	advmod
2	fearless	fearless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 they	amod
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 they	cop
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 made	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 made	punct
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 made	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 made	nsubj
8	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 made	obj
10	of	of	SCONJ	_	11 creeping	mark
11	creeping	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 nothing	acl
12	in	in	ADV	_	11 creeping	advmod
13	among	among	ADP	_	15 folds	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 folds	det
15	folds	fold	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 creeping	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 garments	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 garments	nmod:poss
18	garments	garment	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 folds	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past		Pygmies = pygmy		tree rules
2	make	past	Pygmies = pygmy	nothing		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nothing=Product
3	creep in	gerund			the folds of Earth's garments	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among fold=Trajectory

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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