Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 60

It is impossible to tell half of the funny tricks that they played with their huge comrade; but I do not know that anything was more curious than when a party of boys were seen running races on his forehead, to try which of them could get first round the circle of his one great eye.

Who acts: tricks, I, anything, party · What happens: be, tell, play, not know, see, run · To what, where: half, funny tricks, party, races, forehead · 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 (tricks, I, anything, party), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 impossible	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 impossible	cop
3	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 tell	mark
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 impossible	csubj
6	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	5 tell	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 tricks	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tricks	det
9	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tricks	amod
10	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 half	nmod
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 played	obj
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 played	nsubj
13	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 tricks	acl:relcl
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 comrade	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 comrade	nmod:poss
16	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 comrade	amod
17	comrade	comrade	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 played	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 know	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 know	cc
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 know	nsubj
21	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 know	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 know	advmod
23	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 impossible	parataxis
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 curious	mark
25	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	28 curious	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 curious	cop
27	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 curious	advmod
28	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 know	ccomp
29	than	than	SCONJ	_	36 seen	mark
30	when	when	SCONJ	_	36 seen	mark
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 party	det
32	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 seen	nsubj:pass
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 boys	case
34	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 party	nmod
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 seen	aux:pass
36	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 curious	advcl
37	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 seen	xcomp
38	races	race	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 running	obj
39	on	on	ADP	_	41 forehead	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 forehead	nmod:poss
41	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 running	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 try	punct
43	to	to	PART	_	44 try	mark
44	try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	23 know	parataxis
45	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	49 get	obj
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 them	case
47	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 get	obl
48	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 get	aux
49	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 try	ccomp
50	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	49 get	advmod
51	round	round	ADP	_	53 circle	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 circle	det
53	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 get	obl
54	of	of	ADP	_	58 eye	case
55	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 eye	nmod:poss
56	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	58 eye	nummod
57	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 eye	amod
58	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 circle	nmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 impossible	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present				impossible property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive		half of the funny tricks			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent half=Recipient
3	play	past	tricks = trick	the funny tricks		with tricks's huge comrade	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent that=Theme with comrade=Co-Agent
4	not know	present · do-support	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	past	anything			curious property	tree rules
6	see	past · passive		a party of boys			tree rules
7	run	gerund	a party of boys not said here	races	Earth's forehead		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent race=Theme on forehead=Trajectory
8	try	to-infinitive					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
9	get	could				of tricks = trick; round the circle of Earth's one great eye; first property	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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