Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 73

They never failed to exhort one another to fight bravely, and recollect that the world had its eyes upon them; although, in simple truth, the only spectator was the Giant Antaeus, with his one, great, stupid eye in the middle of his forehead.

Who acts: Pygmies, world, simple truth · What happens: not fail, exhort, fight, recollect, have, be · To what, where: one, eyes, Giant Antaeus

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, world, simple truth), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 failed	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 failed	advmod
3	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 exhort	mark
5	exhort	exhort	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 failed	xcomp
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 exhort	obj
7	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 one	fixed
8	to	to	PART	_	9 fight	mark
9	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 exhort	advcl
10	bravely	bravely	ADV	_	9 fight	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 recollect	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 recollect	cc
13	recollect	recollect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 exhort	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 had	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 world	det
16	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 recollect	advcl
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 eyes	nmod:poss
19	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 had	obj
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 had	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 Antaeus	punct
23	although	although	SCONJ	_	35 Antaeus	mark
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 truth	punct
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 truth	case
26	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 truth	amod
27	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 Antaeus	nsubj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 spectator	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 spectator	det
30	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 spectator	amod
31	spectator	spectator	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 truth	conj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 Antaeus	cop
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Antaeus	det
34	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 Antaeus	amod
35	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 failed	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 eye	punct
37	with	with	ADP	_	44 eye	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 eye	nmod:poss
39	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	44 eye	nsubj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 great	punct
41	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 eye	amod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 great	punct
43	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 eye	amod
44	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 failed	obl
45	in	in	ADP	_	47 middle	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 middle	det
47	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 eye	nmod
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 forehead	case
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 forehead	nmod:poss
50	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 middle	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 failed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not fail	past	Pygmies = pygmy		with Antaeus's great stupid eye in the middle of Antaeus's forehead	vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	exhort	to-infinitive	Pygmies = pygmy not said here	one		vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Recipient
3	fight	to-infinitive	Pygmies = pygmy not said here		bravely property	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	recollect	infinitive	Pygmies = pygmy not said here			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
5	have	past	the world	world's eyes	upon Pygmies = pygmy	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
6	is a	past	simple truth and the only spectator	the Giant Antaeus		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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