Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 72

He aimed another blow at Hercules, but struck awry, being blinded with wrath, and only hit his poor innocent Mother Earth, who groaned and trembled at the stroke.

Who acts: deal, poor innocent Mother · What happens: aim, strike, blind, hit, groan, tremble · To what, where: blow, Hercules, poor innocent Mother, stroke

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, poor innocent Mother), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 aimed	nsubj
2	aimed	aim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	4 blow	det
4	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 aimed	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 Hercules	case
6	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 aimed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 struck	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 struck	cc
9	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 aimed	conj
10	awry	awry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 struck	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 blinded	punct
12	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 blinded	aux:pass
13	blinded	blind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 struck	parataxis
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 wrath	case
15	wrath	wrath	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 blinded	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hit	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 hit	cc
18	only	only	ADV	_	19 hit	advmod
19	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 aimed	conj
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 Mother	nmod:poss
21	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Mother	amod
22	innocent	innocent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Mother	amod
23	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hit	obj
24	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Mother	appos
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 groaned	punct
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 groaned	nsubj
27	groaned	groan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 Mother	parataxis
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 trembled	cc
29	trembled	tremble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 groaned	conj
30	at	at	ADP	_	32 stroke	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 stroke	det
32	stroke	stroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 trembled	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 aimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	aim	past	deal	another blow	Hercules		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot blow=Theme
2	strike	past	deal not said here			awry property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	blind	gerund · passive				with wrath	tree rules
4	hit	past	deal not said here	deal's poor innocent Mother			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mother=Co-Theme
5	groan	past	deal's poor innocent Mother				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	tremble	past	deal's poor innocent Mother not said here		the stroke		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at stroke=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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