Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 46

And whenever he flung himself on the earth to take a little repose, even if he got up the very next instant, he would be as strong as exactly ten just such giants as his former self.

Who acts: Antaeus · What happens: fling, take, get up, be · To what, where: Antaeus, earth, little repose, next instant

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), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	29 strong	cc
2	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	4 flung	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flung	nsubj
4	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 strong	advcl
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 flung	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 earth	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 earth	det
8	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flung	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 take	mark
10	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 flung	advcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 repose	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 repose	amod
13	repose	repose	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 take	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 got	punct
15	even	even	ADV	_	18 got	advmod
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 got	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 got	nsubj
18	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 take	conj
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 got	compound:prt
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 instant	det
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 next	advmod
22	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 instant	amod
23	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 got	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 flung	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 strong	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 strong	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 strong	cop
28	as	as	ADV	_	29 strong	advmod
29	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
30	as	as	ADP	_	35 giants	case
31	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	32 ten	advmod
32	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 giants	nummod
33	just	just	ADV	_	35 giants	advmod
34	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 giants	amod
35	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 strong	obl
36	as	as	ADP	_	39 self	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 self	nmod:poss
38	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 self	amod
39	self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 giants	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 strong	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fling	past	Antaeus	Antaeus	the earth	whenever property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on earth=Destination
2	take	to-infinitive	Antaeus not said here	a little repose			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent repose=Theme
3	get up a condition, not said to happen	past	Antaeus	the next instant			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer instant=Stimulus
4	is	would	Antaeus			as ten such giants as Antaeus's former self; strong 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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