Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 79
In the above-described warfare, if a Pygmy chanced to pluck out a crane's tail feather, it proved a very great feather in his cap.
Who acts: captain · What happens: describe, chance, pluck out, prove · To what, where: Pygmy, tail feather, great feather, described warfare
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 (captain), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 6 warfare | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 warfare | det |
| 3 | above | above | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 described | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 above | punct |
| 5 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 warfare | amod |
| 6 | warfare | warfare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 proved | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 warfare | punct |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 Pygmy | mark |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Pygmy | det |
| 10 | Pygmy | pygmy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 warfare | conj |
| 11 | chanced | chance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 Pygmy | acl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 pluck | mark |
| 13 | pluck | pluck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 chanced | xcomp |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 pluck | compound:prt |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 crane | det |
| 16 | crane | crane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 feather | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 crane | case |
| 18 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 feather | compound |
| 19 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pluck | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 warfare | punct |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 proved | nsubj |
| 22 | proved | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 feather | det |
| 24 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 great | advmod |
| 25 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 feather | amod |
| 26 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 proved | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 cap | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 cap | nmod:poss |
| 29 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 feather | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 proved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | participle | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | chance | participle | a Pygmy not said here | vn risk-94-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | pluck out | to-infinitive | a crane's tail feather | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient | |||||
| 4 | prove | past | captain | a great feather | the described warfare and a Pygmy | in strategy's cap | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Theme |
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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