Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 25

"Nonsense, nonsense!" growled the sleepy Giant. "

Who acts: Nonsense · What happens: growl

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 (Nonsense), 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 Nonsense	punct
2	Nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 growled	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 nonsense	punct
4	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Nonsense	conj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Nonsense	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Nonsense	punct
7	growled	growl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Giant	det
9	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Giant	amod
10	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 growled	xcomp
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 growled	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 growled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	growl	past	Nonsense and nonsense					giant property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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