Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 64
I am fifty times stronger than you; and now that I stamp my foot upon the ground, I am five hundred times stronger!
Who acts: I · What happens: be, stamp · To what, where: foot, ground, five
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 stronger | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stronger | cop |
| 3 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 times | nummod |
| 4 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stronger | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 stronger | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 stronger | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 stronger | cc |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 stronger | advmod |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 stamp | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 stamp | nsubj |
| 13 | stamp | stamp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 stronger | advcl |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 foot | nmod:poss |
| 15 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stamp | obj |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 ground | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ground | det |
| 18 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stamp | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stamp | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 five | nsubj |
| 21 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 five | cop |
| 22 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 hundred | compound |
| 23 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 times | nummod |
| 24 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 stronger | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 stronger | conj |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 stronger | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | time | than you; strong property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | stamp | present | I | my foot | the ground | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Theme upon ground=Destination | |||
| 3 | is a | present | I | five | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | I not said here | now; time | 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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