Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 79
Before Antaeus could get out of the way, Hercules let drive again, and gave him another knock-down blow, which sent him heels over head, but served only to increase his already enormous and insufferable strength.
Who acts: Antaeus, Hercules, down blow · What happens: get out, let, drive, give, send, serve · To what, where: way, down blow, Hercules, heels, head, enormous strength
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, Hercules, down blow), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 4 get | mark |
| 2 | Antaeus | Antaeus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 get | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 let | advcl |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 way | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 way | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 way | det |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| 10 | Hercules | Hercules | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 let | nsubj |
| 11 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 let | xcomp |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 drive | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gave | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 gave | cc |
| 16 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 let | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 gave | iobj |
| 18 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 blow | det |
| 19 | knock | knock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 down | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 knock | punct |
| 21 | down | down | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 blow | amod |
| 22 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gave | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 sent | punct |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 sent | nsubj |
| 25 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 blow | acl:relcl |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 sent | obj |
| 27 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 sent | obj |
| 28 | over | over | ADP | _ | 29 head | case |
| 29 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sent | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 served | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 served | cc |
| 32 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 let | conj |
| 33 | only | only | ADV | _ | 35 increase | advmod |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 increase | mark |
| 35 | increase | increase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 served | xcomp |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 strength | nmod:poss |
| 37 | already | already | ADV | _ | 38 enormous | advmod |
| 38 | enormous | enormous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 strength | amod |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 insufferable | cc |
| 40 | insufferable | insufferable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 enormous | conj |
| 41 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 increase | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get out | could | Antaeus | the way | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | let | past | Hercules | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | drive | infinitive | Hercules not said here | again | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | give | past | Hercules not said here | another down blow | Hercules | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient blow=Theme | |||
| 5 | send | past | another down blow | heels | Hercules | head | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination heel=Theme | ||
| 6 | serve | past | Hercules not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | increase | to-infinitive | Hercules not said here | Hercules's enormous strength | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer strength=Patient |
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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