Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 36

This latter remark of the Pygmies pricked him deeper than their swords; and, sitting up, in rather a sulky humor, he gave a gape of several yards wide, rubbed his eyes, and finally turned his stupid head in the direction whither his little friends were eagerly pointing.

Who acts: latter remark, Antaeus, little friends, several yards · What happens: prick, sit up, give, rub, turn, be · To what, where: Antaeus, sulky humor, gape, eyes, stupid head, eagerly pointing

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 (latter remark, Antaeus, little friends, several yards), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 remark	det
2	latter	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 remark	amod
3	remark	remark	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pricked	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Pygmies	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Pygmies	det
6	Pygmies	Pygmy	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 remark	nmod
7	pricked	prick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 pricked	obj
9	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 pricked	xcomp
10	than	than	ADP	_	12 swords	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 swords	nmod:poss
12	swords	sword	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 deeper	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 sitting	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sitting	cc
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sitting	punct
16	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 pricked	advcl
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 sitting	compound:prt
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 humor	punct
19	in	in	ADP	_	23 humor	case
20	rather	rather	ADV	_	23 humor	advmod
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 humor	det
22	sulky	sulky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 humor	amod
23	humor	humor	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sitting	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 gave	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 gave	nsubj
26	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 pricked	parataxis
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 gape	det
28	gape	gape	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gave	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 yards	case
30	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 yards	amod
31	yards	yard	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 gape	nmod
32	wide	wide	ADV	_	26 gave	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 rubbed	punct
34	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 gave	conj
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 eyes	nmod:poss
36	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 rubbed	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 turned	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 turned	cc
39	finally	finally	ADV	_	40 turned	advmod
40	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 pricked	conj
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 head	nmod:poss
42	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 head	amod
43	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 turned	obj
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 direction	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 direction	det
46	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 turned	obl
47	whither	whither	ADV	PronType=Int	53 pointing	advmod
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 friends	nmod:poss
49	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 friends	amod
50	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 pointing	nsubj
51	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 pointing	cop
52	eagerly	eagerly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 pointing	amod
53	pointing	pointing	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 direction	nmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 pricked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	prick	past	this latter remark of the Pygmies	Antaeus		deep property	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient
2	sit up	gerund	this latter remark of the Pygmies not said here		a sulky humor		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in humor=Location
3	give	past	Antaeus	a gape of several yards		wide property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gape=Theme
4	rub	past	Antaeus not said here	Antaeus's eyes			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
5	turn	past	this latter remark of the Pygmies not said here	Antaeus's stupid head		in the direction; finally property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Patient in direction=Topic
6	is a	past	Antaeus's little friends	eagerly pointing		whither property	tree rules
7	remark			the Pygmies			nom remark «communication transitive»: of=patient
8	gape		several yards				nom gape «communication intransitive»: of=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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