Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 70
The poor little Pygmies (who really never dreamed that anybody in the world was half so strong as their brother Antaeus) were a good deal dismayed at this.
Who acts: poor little Pygmies, anybody · What happens: not dream, be, dismay · To what, where: good deal, this
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 (poor little Pygmies, anybody), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Pygmies | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Pygmies | amod |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Pygmies | amod |
| 4 | Pygmies | pygmy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 dismayed | nsubj |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 dreamed | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 dreamed | nsubj |
| 7 | really | really | ADV | _ | 9 dreamed | advmod |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 dreamed | advmod |
| 9 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Pygmies | conj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 strong | mark |
| 11 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 strong | nsubj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 world | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 world | det |
| 14 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 anybody | nmod |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 strong | cop |
| 16 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 18 strong | advmod |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 strong | advmod |
| 18 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 dreamed | advcl |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 brother | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 brother | nmod:poss |
| 21 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 strong | obl |
| 22 | Antaeus | Antaeus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 brother | appos |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 Antaeus | punct |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 deal | cop |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 deal | det |
| 26 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 deal | amod |
| 27 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 dismayed | nsubj |
| 28 | dismayed | dismay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 this | case |
| 30 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 dismayed | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 dismayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not dream | past | the poor little Pygmies | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | anybody | as Pygmies's brother; half, strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | a good deal | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | dismay | past | the poor little Pygmies | this | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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