Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 83

"Come on!" roared this thundering Giant. "

What happens: come on, roar · To what, where: thundering · Speech: someone speaks here

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: 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 roared	parataxis
3	on	on	ADV	_	2 Come	advmod
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
6	roared	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 thundering	det
8	thundering	thundering	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 roared	obj
9	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thundering	amod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 thundering	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 thundering	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come on in a quote	infinitive							vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	roar	past		this thundering					tree rules

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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