Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 1
One day the mighty Antaeus was lolling at full length among his little friends.
Who acts: mighty Antaeus · What happens: loll · To what, where: full length
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mighty Antaeus), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lolling | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Antaeus | det |
| 4 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Antaeus | amod |
| 5 | Antaeus | Antaeus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 lolling | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lolling | aux |
| 7 | lolling | loll | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 length | case |
| 9 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 length | amod |
| 10 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lolling | obl |
| 11 | among | among | ADP | _ | 14 friends | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 friends | nmod:poss |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 friends | amod |
| 14 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 length | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lolling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | loll | past · progressive | the mighty Antaeus | full length among Antaeus's little friends | day | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at length=Location |
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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