Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 47

It was well for the world that Antaeus happened to be of a sluggish disposition and liked ease better than exercise; for, if he had frisked about like the Pygmies, and touched the earth as often as they did, he would long ago have been strong enough to pull down the sky about people's ears.

Who acts: instant, world, Antaeus, Pygmies · What happens: be, happen, like, frisk, touch, do · To what, where: earth, world, sky

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 (instant, world, Antaeus, Pygmies), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 world	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 world	cop
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 world	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 world	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 world	det
6	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 happened	nsubj
8	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 happened	nsubj
9	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 world	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	15 disposition	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 disposition	cop
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 disposition	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 disposition	det
14	sluggish	sluggish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 disposition	amod
15	disposition	disposition	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 happened	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 ease	cc
17	liked	like	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 ease	amod
18	ease	ease	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 disposition	conj
19	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 ease	amod
20	than	than	ADP	_	21 exercise	case
21	exercise	exercise	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 better	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 frisked	punct
23	for	for	SCONJ	_	28 frisked	mark
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 for	punct
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 frisked	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 frisked	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 frisked	aux
28	frisked	frisk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 world	conj
29	about	about	ADV	_	28 frisked	advmod
30	like	like	ADP	_	32 Pygmies	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Pygmies	det
32	Pygmies	Pygmy	PROPN	Number=Plur	28 frisked	obl:agent
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 touched	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 touched	cc
35	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 frisked	parataxis
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 earth	det
37	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 touched	obj
38	as	as	ADV	_	39 often	advmod
39	often	often	ADV	_	35 touched	advmod
40	as	as	SCONJ	_	42 did	mark
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 did	nsubj
42	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 often	advcl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 world	punct
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 strong	nsubj
45	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 strong	aux
46	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	47 ago	advmod
47	ago	ago	ADV	_	50 strong	advmod
48	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 strong	aux
49	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	50 strong	cop
50	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 world	acl:relcl
51	enough	enough	ADV	_	50 strong	advmod
52	to	to	PART	_	53 pull	mark
53	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 strong	advcl
54	down	down	ADP	_	53 pull	compound:prt
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 sky	det
56	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 pull	obj
57	about	about	ADP	_	60 ears	case
58	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 ears	nmod:poss
59	's	's	PART	_	58 people	case
60	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 pull	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 world	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	instant		for the world; well property	tree rules
2	happen	past	the world			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	to-infinitive	the world not said here		of a sluggish disposition and liked ease	tree rules
4	like	participle				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	frisk a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Antaeus		about property	vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent
6	touch	past		the earth	often property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme earth=Co-Theme
7	do	past	Pygmies = pygmy			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	is	would · perfect	Antaeus	the world not said here	ago, enough, strong property	tree rules
9	pull down	to-infinitive	Antaeus not said here	the sky	about people's ears	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sky=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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