Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 63
"By hitting you a rap with this pine tree here," shouted Antaeus, scowling so that he made himself the ugliest monster in Africa. "
Who acts: Antaeus · What happens: hit, shout, scowl, make · To what, where: you, Antaeus · 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 (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hitting | punct |
| 2 | By | by | SCONJ | _ | 3 hitting | mark |
| 3 | hitting | hit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 shouted | advcl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 hitting | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 rap | det |
| 6 | rap | rap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hitting | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 tree | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 tree | det |
| 9 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tree | compound |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hitting | obl |
| 11 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 hitting | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hitting | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 shouted | punct |
| 14 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Antaeus | Antaeus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 shouted | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 scowling | punct |
| 17 | scowling | scowl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 shouted | advcl |
| 18 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 21 made | mark |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 so | fixed |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 made | nsubj |
| 21 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 scowling | ccomp |
| 22 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 made | obj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 monster | det |
| 24 | ugliest | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 25 monster | amod |
| 25 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 made | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 Africa | case |
| 27 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 monster | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 scowling | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 scowling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit in a quote | gerund | Antaeus not said here | you | here | with this pine tree | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent you=Patient rap=Result with tree=Instrument | ||
| 2 | shout speech: express | past | Antaeus | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | scowl | gerund | Antaeus not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | make | past | Antaeus | Antaeus | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset himself=Beneficiary monster=Product |
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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