Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 71
But no sooner was the Giant down, than up he bounced again, with tenfold might, and such a furious visage as was horrible to behold.
Who acts: deal · What happens: be, bounce
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 (deal), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 Giant | cc |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 sooner | det |
| 3 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 Giant | advmod |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Giant | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Giant | det |
| 6 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 Giant | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bounced | punct |
| 9 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 12 bounced | mark |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 bounced | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 bounced | nsubj |
| 12 | bounced | bounce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Giant | parataxis |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 bounced | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 might | punct |
| 15 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 17 might | mark |
| 16 | tenfold | tenfold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 might | nsubj |
| 17 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 bounced | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 visage | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 visage | cc |
| 20 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 visage | det:predet |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 visage | det |
| 22 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 visage | amod |
| 23 | visage | visage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Giant | conj |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 horrible | mark |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 horrible | cop |
| 26 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 visage | parataxis |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 behold | mark |
| 28 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 26 horrible | discourse |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Giant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | giant, soon property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bounce | past | deal | again | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | horrible property | 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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