Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 107

Indeed, his thoughts had been so much taken up with the Giant, that he had never once looked at the Pygmies, nor even knew that there was such a funny little nation in the world.

Who acts: Hercules · What happens: take up, look, know, be, think · To what, where: thoughts

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), 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	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	9 taken	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Indeed	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 thoughts	nmod:poss
4	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 taken	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 taken	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 taken	aux:pass
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADV	_	9 taken	advmod
9	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 taken	compound:prt
11	with	with	SCONJ	_	13 Giant	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Giant	det
13	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 taken	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 looked	punct
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 looked	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 looked	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 looked	aux
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 once	advmod
19	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	20 looked	advmod
20	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 taken	conj
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 Pygmies	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Pygmies	det
23	Pygmies	Pygmy	PROPN	Number=Plur	20 looked	obl:agent
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 knew	punct
25	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	27 knew	cc
26	even	even	ADV	_	27 knew	advmod
27	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 taken	conj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 was	mark
29	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	30 was	expl
30	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 knew	advcl
31	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	35 nation	det:predet
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 nation	det
33	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 nation	amod
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 nation	amod
35	nation	nation	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 knew	ccomp
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 world	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 world	det
38	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 nation	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take up	past · perfect · passive		Hercules's thoughts		indeed property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	look	past · perfect	Hercules			once property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	know	past					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	be	past			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	think		Hercules				nom thought «cognition 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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