Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 58

When his head lay sidewise on the earth, they would march boldly up, and peep into the great cavern of his mouth, and take it all as a joke (as indeed it was meant) when Antaeus gave a sudden snap of his jaws, as if he were going to swallow fifty of them at once.

Who acts: head, Pygmies, Antaeus, Earth · What happens: lie, march up, take, mean, give, go · To what, where: earth, peep, great cavern, head, sudden snap, fifty

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 (head, Pygmies, Antaeus, Earth), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 lay	advmod
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 head	nmod:poss
3	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	nsubj
4	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 march	advcl
5	sidewise	sidewise	ADV	_	4 lay	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 earth	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 earth	det
8	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 march	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 march	aux
12	march	march	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	boldly	boldly	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 up	advmod
14	up	up	ADP	_	12 march	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 peep	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 peep	cc
17	peep	peep	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 march	obl
18	into	into	ADP	_	21 cavern	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cavern	det
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 cavern	amod
21	cavern	cavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 march	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 mouth	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 mouth	nmod:poss
24	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cavern	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 take	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 take	cc
27	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 march	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 take	obj
29	all	all	ADV	_	32 joke	advmod
30	as	as	ADP	_	32 joke	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 joke	det
32	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 take	obl
33	(	(	PUNCT	_	38 meant	punct
34	as	as	ADP	_	35 indeed	case
35	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	38 meant	obl
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 meant	nsubj:pass
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 meant	aux:pass
38	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 take	advcl
39	)	)	PUNCT	_	38 meant	punct
40	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	42 gave	advmod
41	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 gave	nsubj
42	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 meant	conj
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 snap	det
44	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 snap	amod
45	snap	snap	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 gave	obj
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 jaws	case
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 jaws	nmod:poss
48	jaws	jaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 snap	nmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 going	punct
50	as	as	SCONJ	_	54 going	mark
51	if	if	SCONJ	_	54 going	mark
52	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 going	nsubj
53	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 going	aux
54	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 gave	advcl
55	to	to	PART	_	56 swallow	mark
56	swallow	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 going	xcomp
57	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	56 swallow	obj
58	of	of	ADP	_	59 them	case
59	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 fifty	nmod
60	at	at	ADP	_	61 once	case
61	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	56 swallow	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 march	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past	Earth's head		the earth	sidewise property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on earth=Location
2	march up	would	Pygmies = pygmy	peep		into the great cavern of Earth's mouth result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into cavern=Result
3	take	infinitive	Pygmies = pygmy not said here	head		as a joke	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme as joke=Attribute
4	mean	past · passive		head			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Topic as indeed=Attribute
5	give	past	Antaeus	a sudden snap of Earth's jaws			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snap=Theme
6	go	past · progressive	Earth				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	swallow	to-infinitive	Earth not said here	fifty of Pygmies			vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fifty=Patient
8	snap			Earth's jaws			nom snap «act 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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