Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 106

If Hercules heard their shrieks, however, he took no notice, and perhaps fancied them only the shrill, plaintive twittering of small birds that had been frightened from their nests by the uproar of the battle between himself and Antaeus.

Who acts: Hercules, uproar, Pygmies · What happens: hear, take, fancy, frighten, shriek · To what, where: shrieks, notice, Pygmies, small birds, nests

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 (Hercules, uproar, 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 heard	mark
2	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 took	advcl
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 shrieks	nmod:poss
5	shrieks	shriek	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 heard	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 however	punct
7	however	however	ADV	_	3 heard	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 took	nsubj
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 notice	det
12	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fancied	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 fancied	cc
15	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	16 fancied	advmod
16	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 took	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fancied	obj
18	only	only	ADV	_	23 twittering	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 twittering	det
20	shrill	shrill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 twittering	amod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 shrill	punct
22	plaintive	plaintive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 twittering	amod
23	twittering	twittering	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fancied	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 birds	case
25	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 birds	amod
26	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 twittering	nmod
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 frightened	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 frightened	aux
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 frightened	aux:pass
30	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 birds	acl:relcl
31	from	from	ADP	_	33 nests	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 nests	nmod:poss
33	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 frightened	obl
34	by	by	ADP	_	36 uproar	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 uproar	det
36	uproar	uproar	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 frightened	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 battle	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 battle	det
39	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 uproar	nmod
40	between	between	ADP	_	41 himself	case
41	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	39 battle	nmod
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 Antaeus	cc
43	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 himself	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear a condition, not said to happen	past	Hercules	Pygmies's shrieks		however property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer shriek=Stimulus
2	take	past	Hercules	no notice			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme
3	fancy	past	Hercules not said here	Pygmies = pygmy		the shrill plaintive twittering of small birds obl; perhaps property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
4	frighten	past · perfect · passive	the uproar of the battle between Hercules	small birds	Pygmies's nests		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
5	shriek		Pygmies = pygmy				nom shriek «communication 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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