Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 75

As for the Pygmies, their capital city was laid in ruins by the concussion and vibration of the air; and, though there was uproar enough without their help, they all set up a shriek out of three millions of little throats, fancying, no doubt, that they swelled the Giant's bellow by at least ten times as much.

Who acts: concussion, air · What happens: lay, be, set up, fancy, swell, vibrate · To what, where: capital city, ruins, shriek, three millions, doubt, Giant bellow

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 (concussion, air), 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	As	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	4 Pygmies	case
2	for	for	ADP	_	1 As	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Pygmies	det
4	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 laid	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Pygmies	punct
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 city	nmod:poss
7	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 city	compound
8	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 laid	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 laid	aux:pass
10	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 ruins	case
12	ruins	ruin	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 laid	obl
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 concussion	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 concussion	det
15	concussion	concussion	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 laid	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 vibration	cc
17	vibration	vibration	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 concussion	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 air	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 air	det
20	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 vibration	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 help	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 help	cc
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 and	punct
24	though	though	SCONJ	_	26 was	mark
25	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	26 was	expl
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 help	cop
27	uproar	uproar	ADV	_	26 was	advmod
28	enough	enough	ADV	_	26 was	advmod
29	without	without	ADP	_	31 help	case
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 help	nmod:poss
31	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 laid	parataxis
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 set	punct
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 set	nsubj
34	all	all	ADV	_	35 set	advmod
35	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 help	acl
36	up	up	ADP	_	35 set	compound:prt
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 shriek	det
38	shriek	shriek	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 set	obj
39	out	out	ADP	_	42 millions	case
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 millions	case
41	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 millions	nummod
42	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 set	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 throats	case
44	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 throats	amod
45	throats	throat	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 millions	nmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 fancying	punct
47	fancying	fancy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 set	advcl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 doubt	punct
49	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	50 doubt	det
50	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 fancying	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 swelled	punct
52	that	that	SCONJ	_	54 swelled	mark
53	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 swelled	nsubj
54	swelled	swell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 fancying	conj
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 Giant	det
56	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 bellow	amod
57	's	's	PART	_	56 Giant	case
58	bellow	bellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 swelled	obj
59	by	by	ADP	_	63 times	case
60	at	at	ADP	_	61 least	case
61	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	62 ten	nmod
62	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	63 times	nummod
63	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 swelled	obl:unmarked
64	as	as	ADV	_	65 much	advmod
65	much	much	ADV	_	54 swelled	advmod
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	past · passive	the concussion and vibration of the air	Pygmies's capital city	ruins		as the Pygmies	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent subject=Result as pygmy=Attribute
2	is	past					without concussion's help	tree rules
3	set up	present	concussion	a shriek	three millions of little throats		all property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent shriek=Theme out million=Destination
4	fancy	gerund	concussion not said here	no doubt				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
5	swell	past	concussion	Giant bellow		time		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient bellow=Extent
6	vibrate		the air					nom vibration «act intransitive»: of=agent

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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