Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 63

But Antaeus took it all kindly enough; although, once in a while, when he happened to be sleepy, he would grumble out a peevish word or two, like the muttering of a tempest, and ask them to have done with their nonsense.

Who acts: Antaeus · What happens: take, happen, be, grumble out, ask, do · To what, where: skin, peevish word, tricks, tempest · 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 (Antaeus), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 took	cc
2	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	obj
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 kindly	advmod
6	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	3 took	advmod
7	enough	enough	ADV	_	3 took	advmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct
9	although	although	SCONJ	_	3 took	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 once	punct
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 took	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 while	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 while	det
14	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 happened	punct
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 happened	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 happened	nsubj
18	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	21 sleepy	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 sleepy	cop
21	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 happened	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 grumble	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 grumble	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 grumble	aux
25	grumble	grumble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 took	parataxis
26	out	out	ADP	_	25 grumble	compound:prt
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 word	det
28	peevish	peevish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 word	amod
29	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 grumble	obj
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 two	cc
31	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 word	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 muttering	punct
33	like	like	ADP	_	35 muttering	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 muttering	det
35	muttering	muttering	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 grumble	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 tempest	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 tempest	det
38	tempest	tempest	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 muttering	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 ask	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 ask	cc
41	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 grumble	conj
42	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 ask	obj
43	to	to	PART	_	45 done	mark
44	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	45 done	aux
45	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	41 ask	ccomp
46	with	with	ADP	_	48 nonsense	case
47	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 nonsense	nmod:poss
48	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 done	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Antaeus	skin		while	enough, kindly, once property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument it=Theme although=Destination
2	happen	past	Antaeus					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	to-infinitive	Antaeus not said here				sleepy property	tree rules
4	grumble out speech: other	would	Antaeus	a peevish word			like the muttering of a tempest	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic
5	ask speech: ask	infinitive	Antaeus not said here		tricks = trick			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
6	do not said to happen	to-infinitive · perfect					with tricks's nonsense	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	mutter			a tempest				nom muttering «event 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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