Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 27

Still the stranger drew nearer; and now the Pygmies could plainly discern that, if his stature were less lofty than the Giant's, yet his shoulders were even broader.

Who acts: you, stranger, Pygmies, stature, shoulders · What happens: still, draw, discern, be · To what, where: that

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 (you, stranger, Pygmies, stature), 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	Still	still	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stranger	det
3	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drew	nsubj
4	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Still	ccomp
5	nearer	near	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 drew	advmod
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 discern	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 discern	cc
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 discern	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Pygmies	det
10	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 discern	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 discern	aux
12	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	13 discern	advmod
13	discern	discern	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Still	conj
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 discern	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lofty	punct
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 lofty	mark
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 stature	nmod:poss
18	stature	stature	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lofty	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 lofty	cop
20	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 lofty	advmod
21	lofty	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 discern	parataxis
22	than	than	SCONJ	_	24 Giant	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Giant	det
24	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 lofty	conj
25	's	's	PART	_	24 Giant	case
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 broader	punct
27	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	32 broader	cc
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 shoulders	nmod:poss
29	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 broader	nsubj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 broader	cop
31	even	even	ADV	_	32 broader	advmod
32	broader	broad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 lofty	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Still	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	still	imperative	you not said here				tree rules
2	draw	past	the stranger			near property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	discern	could	the Pygmies	that	now	plainly property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
4	is a condition, not said to happen	past	stranger's stature			less, lofty property	tree rules
5	be		stranger's stature not said here				tree rules
6	is	past	stranger's shoulders			broad property	tree rules

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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