Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 77

If Antaeus observed that the battle was going hard against his little allies, he generally stopped laughing, and ran with mile-long strides to their assistance, flourishing his club aloft and shouting at the cranes, who quacked and croaked, and retreated as fast as they could.

Who acts: Antaeus, battle, cranes, battles · What happens: observe, go, stop, laugh, run, flourish · To what, where: little allies, club, cranes

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 (Antaeus, battle, cranes, battles), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 observed	mark
2	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 observed	nsubj
3	observed	observe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 stopped	advcl
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 going	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 battle	det
6	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 going	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 going	aux
8	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 observed	ccomp
9	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 going	advmod
10	against	against	ADP	_	13 allies	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 allies	nmod:poss
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 allies	amod
13	allies	ally	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 going	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 observed	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 stopped	nsubj
16	generally	generally	ADV	_	17 stopped	advmod
17	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 stopped	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ran	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 ran	cc
21	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 stopped	conj
22	with	with	ADP	_	26 strides	case
23	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 long	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 mile	punct
25	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 strides	amod
26	strides	stride	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 ran	obl
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 assistance	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 assistance	nmod:poss
29	assistance	assistance	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ran	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 flourishing	punct
31	flourishing	flourish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 ran	advcl
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 club	nmod:poss
33	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 flourishing	obj
34	aloft	aloft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 flourishing	xcomp
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 shouting	cc
36	shouting	shout	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 flourishing	conj
37	at	at	ADP	_	39 cranes	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 cranes	det
39	cranes	crane	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 shouting	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 quacked	punct
41	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 quacked	nsubj
42	quacked	quack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 cranes	acl:relcl
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 croaked	cc
44	croaked	croak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 quacked	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 retreated	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 retreated	cc
47	retreated	retreat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 stopped	conj
48	as	as	ADV	_	49 fast	advmod
49	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	47 retreated	advmod
50	as	as	SCONJ	_	52 could	mark
51	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 could	nsubj
52	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 fast	advcl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	observe a condition, not said to happen	past	Antaeus				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go	past · progressive	the battle		Antaeus's little allies	hard property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme against ally=Location
3	stop	past	Antaeus			generally property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	laugh	gerund	Antaeus not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	run	past	Antaeus not said here			with long strides; to battles's assistance result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to assistance=Result
6	flourish	gerund	Antaeus not said here	Antaeus's club		aloft property	tree rules
7	shout speech: express	gerund	Antaeus not said here		the cranes		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	quack	past	the cranes				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	croak	past	the cranes not said here				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	retreat	past	Antaeus not said here			fast property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
11	assist		battles = battle				nom assistance «act transitive»: poss=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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