Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 76
Meanwhile, Antaeus had scrambled upon his feet again, and pulled his pine tree out of the earth; and, all aflame with fury, and more outrageously strong than ever, he ran at Hercules, and brought down another blow.
Who acts: Antaeus · What happens: scramble, pull, run, bring down · To what, where: feet, pine tree, earth, Hercules, blow
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 (Antaeus), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 5 scrambled | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Meanwhile | punct |
| 3 | Antaeus | Antaeus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 scrambled | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 scrambled | aux |
| 5 | scrambled | scramble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 feet | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 feet | nmod:poss |
| 8 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 scrambled | obl |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 scrambled | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pulled | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 pulled | cc |
| 12 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 scrambled | parataxis |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 tree | nmod:poss |
| 14 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tree | compound |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pulled | obj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 earth | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 earth | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 earth | det |
| 19 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pulled | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 aflame | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 aflame | cc |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 and | punct |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 aflame | advmod |
| 24 | aflame | aflame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pulled | parataxis |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 fury | case |
| 26 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 aflame | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 strong | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 strong | cc |
| 29 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 30 outrageously | advmod |
| 30 | outrageously | outrageously | ADV | _ | 31 strong | advmod |
| 31 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 aflame | conj |
| 32 | than | than | ADP | _ | 33 ever | case |
| 33 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 31 strong | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 ran | punct |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 ran | nsubj |
| 36 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 pulled | conj |
| 37 | at | at | ADP | _ | 38 Hercules | case |
| 38 | Hercules | Hercules | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 ran | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 brought | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 brought | cc |
| 41 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 pulled | conj |
| 42 | down | down | ADP | _ | 41 brought | compound:prt |
| 43 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 44 blow | det |
| 44 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 brought | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 scrambled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scramble | past · perfect | Antaeus | Antaeus's feet | again | meanwhile property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon foot=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | pull | past | Antaeus's pine tree | the earth | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent tree=Theme out earth=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | run | past | Antaeus | Hercules | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at hercules=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | bring down | past | another blow | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent blow=Theme |
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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