Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 82

Having now no weapons but his fists, he doubled them up (each bigger than a hogshead), smote one against the other, and danced up and down with absolute frenzy, flourishing his immense arms about, as if he meant not merely to kill Hercules, but to smash the whole world to pieces.

Who acts: Hercules · What happens: have, double up, smote, dance, flourish, not mean · To what, where: weapons, one, immense arms, Hercules, whole world, pieces

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 (Hercules), 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	Having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 doubled	advcl
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 weapons	advmod
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 weapons	det
4	weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Having	obj
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 fists	cc
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 fists	nmod:poss
7	fists	fist	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 weapons	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Having	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 doubled	nsubj
10	doubled	double	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 doubled	obj
12	up	up	ADP	_	10 doubled	compound:prt
13	(	(	PUNCT	_	15 bigger	punct
14	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	15 bigger	det
15	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 doubled	conj
16	than	than	ADP	_	18 hogshead	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 hogshead	det
18	hogshead	hogshead	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bigger	obl
19	)	)	PUNCT	_	15 bigger	punct
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 smote	punct
21	smote	smote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 doubled	conj
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 smote	obj
23	against	against	ADP	_	25 other	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 other	det
25	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 one	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 danced	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 danced	cc
28	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 doubled	conj
29	up	up	ADV	_	28 danced	advmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 down	cc
31	down	down	ADV	_	29 up	conj
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 frenzy	case
33	absolute	absolute	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 frenzy	amod
34	frenzy	frenzy	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 danced	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 flourishing	punct
36	flourishing	flourish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 danced	advcl
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 arms	nmod:poss
38	immense	immense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 arms	amod
39	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 flourishing	obj
40	about	about	ADV	_	36 flourishing	advmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 meant	punct
42	as	as	SCONJ	_	45 meant	mark
43	if	if	SCONJ	_	45 meant	mark
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 meant	nsubj
45	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 danced	parataxis
46	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	45 meant	advmod
47	merely	merely	ADV	_	45 meant	advmod
48	to	to	PART	_	49 kill	mark
49	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 merely	advcl
50	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 kill	obj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 smash	punct
52	but	but	CCONJ	_	54 smash	cc
53	to	to	PART	_	54 smash	mark
54	smash	smash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 meant	conj
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 world	det
56	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 world	amod
57	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 smash	obj
58	to	to	ADP	_	59 pieces	case
59	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 smash	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 doubled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	gerund	Hercules not said here	no weapons but Hercules's fists			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weapon=Patient
2	double up	past	Hercules	weapons = weapon			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	smote	infinitive	Hercules not said here	one		against the other	tree rules
4	dance	past	Hercules not said here			with absolute frenzy	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	flourish	gerund	Hercules not said here	Hercules's immense arms		about property	tree rules
6	not mean a condition, not said to happen	past	Hercules			merely property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
7	kill	to-infinitive	Hercules not said here	Hercules			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hercules=Theme
8	smash	to-infinitive	Hercules not said here	the whole world	pieces		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent world=Theme to piece=Destination

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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