Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 68

The Pygmies had but one thing to trouble them in the world.

Who acts: Pygmies · What happens: have · To what, where: one thing

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 (Pygmies), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Pygmies	det
2	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 thing	cc
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 thing	nummod
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 trouble	mark
8	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thing	nmod
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 trouble	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 world	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 world	det
12	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 trouble	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the Pygmies	one thing trouble in the world					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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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