Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 37
No sooner did he set eyes on the stranger, than, leaping on his feet, and seizing his walking stick, he strode a mile or two to meet him; all the while brandishing the sturdy pine tree, so that it whistled through the air.
Who acts: Antaeus, while, tree · What happens: set, leap, seize, stride, meet, brandish · To what, where: eyes, stranger, feet, walking stick, mile, Antaeus
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 (Antaeus, while, tree), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 sooner | det |
| 2 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 set | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 set | aux |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 set | nsubj |
| 5 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 set | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 stranger | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stranger | det |
| 9 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 set | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 leaping | punct |
| 11 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 13 leaping | mark |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 leaping | punct |
| 13 | leaping | leap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 set | advcl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 feet | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 feet | nmod:poss |
| 16 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 leaping | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 seizing | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 seizing | cc |
| 19 | seizing | seize | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 leaping | conj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 stick | nmod:poss |
| 21 | walking | walking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stick | compound |
| 22 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 seizing | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 strode | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 strode | nsubj |
| 25 | strode | stride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 stick | acl:relcl |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 mile | det |
| 27 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 strode | obj |
| 28 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 two | cc |
| 29 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 mile | conj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 meet | mark |
| 31 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 strode | advcl |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 meet | obj |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 brandishing | punct |
| 34 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 while | det:predet |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 while | det |
| 36 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 brandishing | nsubj |
| 37 | brandishing | brandish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 set | advcl |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 tree | det |
| 39 | sturdy | sturdy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 tree | amod |
| 40 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 tree | compound |
| 41 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 brandishing | obj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 whistled | punct |
| 43 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 46 whistled | mark |
| 44 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 43 so | fixed |
| 45 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 whistled | nsubj |
| 46 | whistled | whistle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 set | conj |
| 47 | through | through | ADP | _ | 49 air | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 air | det |
| 49 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 whistled | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past · do-support | Antaeus | eyes | the stranger | soon property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on stranger=Destination | ||
| 2 | leap | gerund | Antaeus not said here | Antaeus's feet | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on foot=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | seize | gerund | Antaeus not said here | Antaeus's walking stick | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stride | past | Antaeus | a mile | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mile=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | meet | to-infinitive | Antaeus not said here | Antaeus | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 6 | brandish | gerund | all while | the sturdy pine tree | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | whistle | past | tree | the air | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Location |
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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