Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 34
The strange Giant's club is bigger than your own, his shoulders are the broadest, and we think him the stronger of the two."
Who acts: strange Giant club, shoulders, we · What happens: be, think · To what, where: club
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 (strange Giant club, shoulders, we), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 club | det |
| 2 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 club | amod |
| 3 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 club | amod |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Giant | case |
| 5 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bigger | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 bigger | cop |
| 7 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 own | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 own | nmod:poss |
| 10 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bigger | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 broadest | punct |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 13 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 broadest | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 broadest | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 broadest | det |
| 16 | broadest | broad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 bigger | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 think | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 think | cc |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 think | nsubj |
| 20 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 bigger | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 think | obj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 stronger | det |
| 23 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 think | ccomp |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 two | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 two | det |
| 26 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 stronger | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 bigger | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 bigger | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the strange Giant club | than your own; big property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | club's shoulders | broad property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | present | we | club | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme |
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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