Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 51
He carelessly lifted his club, and balanced it in his hand, measuring Antaeus with his eye, from head to foot, not as if wonder-smitten at his stature, but as if he had seen a great many Giants before, and this was by no means the biggest of them.
Who acts: stranger, no · What happens: lift, balance, measure, not smite, see, mean · To what, where: club, mountain, hand, Antaeus, head, stature
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 (stranger, no), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lifted | nsubj |
| 2 | carelessly | carelessly | ADV | _ | 3 lifted | advmod |
| 3 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 club | nmod:poss |
| 5 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lifted | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 balanced | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 balanced | cc |
| 8 | balanced | balance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lifted | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 balanced | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 hand | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hand | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 balanced | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 measuring | punct |
| 14 | measuring | measure | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 balanced | advcl |
| 15 | Antaeus | Antaeus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 measuring | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 eye | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 eye | nmod:poss |
| 18 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 measuring | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 head | punct |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 head | case |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 measuring | obl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 foot | case |
| 23 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 head | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 smitten | punct |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 smitten | advmod |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 smitten | mark |
| 27 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 30 smitten | mark |
| 28 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 smitten | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 wonder | punct |
| 30 | smitten | smite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 measuring | conj |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 stature | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 stature | nmod:poss |
| 33 | stature | stature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 smitten | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 seen | punct |
| 35 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 seen | cc |
| 36 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 40 seen | mark |
| 37 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 40 seen | mark |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 seen | nsubj |
| 39 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 seen | aux |
| 40 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 lifted | conj |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 Giants | det |
| 42 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 Giants | amod |
| 43 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 Giants | amod |
| 44 | Giants | Giant | PROPN | Number=Plur | 40 seen | obj |
| 45 | before | before | ADV | _ | 40 seen | advmod |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 means | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 means | cc |
| 48 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 51 no | nsubj |
| 49 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 no | cop |
| 50 | by | by | ADP | _ | 51 no | case |
| 51 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 52 means | nsubj |
| 52 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 lifted | parataxis |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 biggest | det |
| 54 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 52 means | obj |
| 55 | of | of | ADP | _ | 56 them | case |
| 56 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 54 biggest | nmod |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | past | stranger | stranger's club | carelessly property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=Theme | |||
| 2 | balance | past | stranger not said here | mountain | stranger's hand | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent it=Theme in hand=Location | |||
| 3 | measure | gerund | stranger not said here | Antaeus | head to foot | with stranger's eye | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme antaeus=Value | ||
| 4 | not smite a condition, not said to happen | participle | stranger not said here | stranger's stature | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | see a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | stranger | a great many Giants | before property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer giant=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | mean | present | no | the biggest of feet | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent big=Topic |
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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