Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 13

"Poh, poh!" grumbled Antaeus, only half awake. "

Who acts: Poh · What happens: grumble · To what, where: Antaeus

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 (Poh), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Poh	punct
2	Poh	poh	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grumbled	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 poh	punct
4	poh	poh	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Poh	conj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Poh	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Poh	punct
7	grumbled	grumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 grumbled	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 awake	punct
10	only	only	ADV	_	12 awake	advmod
11	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	12 awake	advmod
12	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 grumbled	parataxis
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 awake	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 grumbled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grumble speech: other	past	Poh and poh	Antaeus					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent antaeus=Topic

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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