Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 43

Some persons affirm that he grew ten times stronger at every touch; others say that it was only twice as strong.

Who acts: persons, Antaeus, others, earth · What happens: affirm, grow, say, be · To what, where: touch · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (persons, Antaeus, others, earth), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 persons	det
2	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 affirm	nsubj
3	affirm	affirm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 grew	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 grew	nsubj
6	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 affirm	ccomp
7	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 times	nummod
8	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stronger	obl:unmarked
9	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 grew	xcomp
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 touch	case
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 touch	det
12	touch	touch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grew	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 say	punct
14	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 say	nsubj
15	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 affirm	parataxis
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 strong	mark
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 strong	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 strong	cop
19	only	only	ADV	_	20 twice	advmod
20	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	22 strong	advmod
21	as	as	ADV	_	22 strong	advmod
22	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 say	advcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 affirm	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	affirm	present	some persons			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	grow	past	Antaeus	every touch	strong property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at touch=Location
3	say speech: assert	present	others			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	earth		strong, twice 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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