Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 65
"Ho! ho! ho!" quoth the Giant, shaking his mountainous sides. "
Who acts: Ho ho · What happens: quoth, shake · To what, where: Giant, mountainous sides
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 (Ho ho), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ho | punct |
| 2 | Ho | Ho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ho | compound |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ho | punct |
| 4 | ho | ho | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 quoth | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 ho | punct |
| 6 | ho | ho | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ho | appos |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 ho | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 ho | punct |
| 9 | quoth | quoth | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Giant | det |
| 11 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 quoth | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 shaking | punct |
| 13 | shaking | shake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 quoth | advcl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 sides | nmod:poss |
| 15 | mountainous | mountainous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sides | amod |
| 16 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 shaking | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 quoth | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 quoth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quoth | present | Ho ho | the Giant | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shake | gerund | Ho ho not said here | ho's mountainous sides | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent side=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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