Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 64

A great deal oftener, however, he watched their merriment and gambols until his huge, heavy, clumsy wits were completely stirred up by them; and then would he roar out such a tremendous volume of immeasurable laughter, that the whole nation of Pygmies had to put their hands to their ears, else it would certainly have deafened them.

Who acts: great deal oftener, tricks, oftener, whole nation · What happens: watch, gambol, stir up, roar out, have, put · To what, where: merriment, clumsy wits, hands, nation

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 (great deal oftener, tricks, oftener, whole nation), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 oftener	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 oftener	amod
3	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 oftener	compound
4	oftener	oftener	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 watched	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 oftener	punct
6	however	however	ADV	_	9 watched	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 however	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 watched	nsubj
9	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 merriment	nmod:poss
11	merriment	merriment	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 watched	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 gambols	cc
13	gambols	gambol	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 watched	conj
14	until	until	SCONJ	_	16 huge	mark
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 huge	nmod:poss
16	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 gambols	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 heavy	punct
18	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 huge	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 stirred	punct
20	clumsy	clumsy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 wits	amod
21	wits	wit	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 stirred	nsubj:pass
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 stirred	aux:pass
23	completely	completely	ADV	_	24 stirred	advmod
24	stirred	stir	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 huge	parataxis
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 stirred	compound:prt
26	by	by	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 stirred	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 roar	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 roar	cc
30	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 roar	advmod
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 roar	aux
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 roar	nsubj
33	roar	roar	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 watched	conj
34	out	out	ADP	_	33 roar	compound:prt
35	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	38 volume	det:predet
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 volume	det
37	tremendous	tremendous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 volume	amod
38	volume	volume	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 roar	parataxis
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 laughter	case
40	immeasurable	immeasurable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 laughter	amod
41	laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 volume	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 had	punct
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 had	mark
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 nation	det
45	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 nation	amod
46	nation	nation	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 had	nsubj
47	of	of	ADP	_	48 Pygmies	case
48	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 nation	nmod
49	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 watched	conj
50	to	to	PART	_	51 put	mark
51	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 had	xcomp
52	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 hands	nmod:poss
53	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 put	obj
54	to	to	ADP	_	56 ears	case
55	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 ears	nmod:poss
56	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 put	obl
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 deafened	punct
58	else	else	ADV	_	63 deafened	advmod
59	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 deafened	nsubj:pass
60	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	63 deafened	aux
61	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	63 deafened	advmod
62	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	63 deafened	aux
63	deafened	deafen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 watched	conj
64	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 deafened	obj
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 watched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	watch	past	a great deal oftener	tricks's merriment		however property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent merriment=Theme
2	gambol	present	a great deal oftener not said here			huge property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stir up	past · passive	tricks = trick	clumsy wits		completely property	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient
4	roar out	would	oftener		then		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
5	have	past	the whole nation of Pygmies				tree rules
6	put	to-infinitive	the whole nation of Pygmies not said here	tricks's hands		to tricks's ears	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal
7	deafen	would · perfect · passive		nation		certainly, else 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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