Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 89

"Aha! then I'll soon satisfy you," shouted the Giant; for, if there was one thing on which he prided himself more than another, it was his skill in wrestling. "

Who acts: I, one thing, Hercules, tree · What happens: satisfy, shout, be, pride · To what, where: you, Giant, Hercules, one thing, skill, wrestling · 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: who acts (I, one thing, Hercules, tree), 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	_	8 satisfy	punct
2	Aha	aha	INTJ	_	8 satisfy	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Aha	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 satisfy	advmod
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 satisfy	nsubj
6	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 satisfy	aux
7	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 satisfy	advmod
8	satisfy	satisfy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 satisfy	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 shouted	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 shouted	punct
12	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 satisfy	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Giant	det
14	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 shouted	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 satisfy	punct
16	for	for	ADP	_	8 satisfy	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 was	punct
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 was	mark
19	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	20 was	expl
20	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 satisfy	parataxis
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 thing	nummod
22	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 was	nsubj
23	on	on	ADP	_	24 which	case
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 prided	obl
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 prided	nsubj
26	prided	pride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 thing	acl:relcl
27	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 prided	obj
28	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 prided	obj
29	than	than	ADP	_	30 another	case
30	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	28 more	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 skill	punct
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 skill	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 skill	cop
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 skill	nmod:poss
35	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 satisfy	conj
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 wrestling	case
37	wrestling	wrestling	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 skill	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 satisfy	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 satisfy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	satisfy in a quote	future	I	you		then	soon property	tree rules
2	shout speech: express	past	I not said here	the Giant				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Topic
3	be a condition, not said to happen	past	one thing		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	pride	past	Hercules	Hercules	one thing			tree rules
5	is a	past	tree	Hercules's skill	wrestling			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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