Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 102

When his strength and breath were quite gone, Hercules gave his huge body a toss, and flung it about a mile off, where it fell heavily, and lay with no more motion than a sand hill.

Who acts: strength, Hercules, you · What happens: be, give, fling off, fall, lay · To what, where: huge body, toss

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 (strength, Hercules, you), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	8 gone	mark
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 strength	nmod:poss
3	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gone	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 breath	cc
5	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 strength	conj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gone	cop
7	quite	quite	ADV	_	8 gone	advmod
8	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 lay	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 gave	punct
10	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 gave	nsubj
11	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gone	parataxis
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 body	nmod:poss
13	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 body	amod
14	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gave	obj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 toss	det
16	toss	toss	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gave	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 flung	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 flung	cc
19	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 gave	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 flung	obj
21	about	about	ADP	_	23 mile	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 mile	det
23	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 flung	obl
24	off	off	ADP	_	19 flung	compound:prt
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 fell	punct
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 fell	advmod
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 fell	nsubj
28	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 flung	conj
29	heavily	heavily	ADV	_	28 fell	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 lay	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 lay	cc
32	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
33	with	with	ADP	_	36 motion	case
34	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	36 motion	det
35	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	36 motion	amod
36	motion	motion	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lay	obl
37	than	than	ADP	_	40 hill	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 hill	det
39	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 hill	compound
40	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 motion	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	way's strength and breath		gone property	tree rules
2	give	past	Hercules	way's huge body		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent body=Recipient toss=Theme
3	fling off	past	Hercules not said here	toss	about a mile	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme about mile=Destination
4	fall	past	strength		heavily property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	lay	imperative	you not said here		with no more motion than a sand hill	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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