Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 93

Watching his opportunity, as the mad Giant made a rush at him, Hercules caught him round the middle with both hands, lifted him high into the air, and held him aloft overhead.

Who acts: Hercules · What happens: watch, make, catch, lift, hold · To what, where: opportunity, rush, way, Hercules, air

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	Watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 made	advcl
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 opportunity	nmod:poss
3	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Watching	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Watching	punct
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 Giant	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Giant	det
7	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Giant	amod
8	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 made	advcl
9	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 rush	det
11	rush	rush	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 made	obj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 made	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 caught	punct
15	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 caught	nsubj
16	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 made	parataxis
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 caught	obj
18	round	round	ADP	_	20 middle	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 middle	det
20	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 caught	obl
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 hands	case
22	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	23 hands	det
23	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 caught	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 lifted	punct
25	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 caught	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 lifted	obj
27	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 lifted	advmod
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 air	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 air	det
30	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lifted	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 held	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 held	cc
33	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 made	conj
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 held	obj
35	aloft	aloft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 held	xcomp
36	overhead	overhead	ADV	_	35 aloft	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	watch	gerund		Hercules's opportunity			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Theme
2	make	past		a rush		at Hercules	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rush=Product
3	catch	past	Hercules	way		round the middle; with both hands	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	lift	past	Hercules not said here	Hercules	the air	high property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into air=Destination
5	hold	past		Hercules		aloft property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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