Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 18
With every step, he looked less like a blue mountain, and more like an immensely large man.
Who acts: stranger · What happens: look
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 (stranger), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 step | case |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 step | det |
| 3 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looked | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 step | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 looked | nsubj |
| 6 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 looked | advmod |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 mountain | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 mountain | det |
| 10 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 mountain | amod |
| 11 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looked | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 more | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 more | cc |
| 14 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 looked | advmod |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 man | case |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 17 | immensely | immensely | ADV | _ | 18 large | advmod |
| 18 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 man | amod |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 more | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | stranger | with every step; like a blue mountain; less property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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