Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 105
What a wailing did the poor little Pygmies set up when they saw their enormous brother treated in this terrible manner!
Who acts: wailing, poor little Pygmies, Pygmies · What happens: do, set up, see, treat · To what, where: enormous brother, terrible manner
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 (wailing, poor little Pygmies, Pygmies), 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 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 wailing | det:predet |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 wailing | det |
| 3 | wailing | wailing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Pygmies | det |
| 6 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Pygmies | amod |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Pygmies | amod |
| 8 | Pygmies | pygmy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 set | nsubj |
| 9 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 set | compound:prt |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 saw | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 saw | nsubj |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 set | advcl |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 brother | nmod:poss |
| 15 | enormous | enormous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 brother | amod |
| 16 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | obj |
| 17 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 brother | acl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 manner | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 manner | det |
| 20 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 manner | amod |
| 21 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 treated | obl |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | what wailing | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | set up | present | the poor little Pygmies | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | see | past | Pygmies = pygmy | Pygmies's enormous brother | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brother=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | treat | participle | Pygmies's enormous brother not said here | this terrible manner | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: 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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