Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 76

A hero, you know, must hold himself in readiness for any kind of fate; and doubtless the glory of the thing was a consolation to him, even in the crane's gizzard.

Who acts: you, hero, glory, thing · What happens: know, hold, doubtless, be, glory · To what, where: hero, readiness, consolation

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 (you, hero, glory, thing), 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	2 hero	det
2	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hold	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 know	nsubj
5	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 hero	acl:relcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 hero	punct
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 hold	aux
8	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 hold	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 readiness	case
11	readiness	readiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hold	obl
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 kind	case
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	14 kind	det
14	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hold	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 fate	case
16	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 kind	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 doubtless	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 doubtless	cc
19	doubtless	doubtless	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 hold	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 glory	det
21	glory	glory	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 consolation	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 thing	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 thing	det
24	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 glory	nmod
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 consolation	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 consolation	det
27	consolation	consolation	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 doubtless	ccomp
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 doubtless	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 gizzard	punct
31	even	even	ADV	_	36 gizzard	advmod
32	in	in	ADP	_	36 gizzard	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 crane	det
34	crane	crane	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 gizzard	nmod:poss
35	's	's	PART	_	34 crane	case
36	gizzard	gizzard	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 doubtless	parataxis
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 hold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	present	you	a hero not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer hero=Stimulus
2	hold	must	a hero	hero		readiness	for any kind of fate	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in readiness=Location
3	doubtless	infinitive	a hero not said here		hero			tree rules
4	is a	past	the glory of the thing	a consolation				tree rules
5	glory		the thing					nom glory «state intransitive»: of=agent

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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