Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 70
From time to time, very terrible battles had been fought in which sometimes the little men won the victory, and sometimes the cranes.
Who acts: little men · What happens: fight, win · To what, where: terrible battles, victory
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 (little men), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 2 time | case |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fought | obl |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 time | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 time | punct |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 terrible | advmod |
| 7 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 battles | amod |
| 8 | battles | battle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fought | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 fought | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 fought | aux:pass |
| 11 | fought | fight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 which | case |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 won | obl |
| 14 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 18 won | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 men | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 men | amod |
| 17 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 won | nsubj |
| 18 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 fought | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 victory | det |
| 20 | victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 won | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 cranes | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 cranes | cc |
| 23 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 25 cranes | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 cranes | det |
| 25 | cranes | crane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fought | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 fought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past · perfect · passive | terrible battles | time | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | win | past | the little men | the victory | sometimes property | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent victory=Eventuality |
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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