Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 6

At first he mistook it for a mountain, and wondered how it had grown up so suddenly out of the earth.

Who acts: Giant, view · What happens: mistake, wonder, grow up · To what, where: view, earth · 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 (Giant, view), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 mistook	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mistook	nsubj
4	mistook	mistake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mistook	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 mountain	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 mountain	det
8	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mistook	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wondered	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 wondered	cc
11	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mistook	conj
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 grown	advmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 grown	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 grown	aux
15	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 wondered	ccomp
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 grown	compound:prt
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 suddenly	advmod
18	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	15 grown	advmod
19	out	out	ADP	_	22 earth	case
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 earth	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 earth	det
22	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grown	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 mistook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mistake	past	Giant	view		for a mountain	tree rules
2	wonder speech: ask	past	Giant not said here				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	grow up	past · perfect	view		the earth	suddenly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out earth=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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