Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 96

But the most wonderful thing was, that, as soon as Antaeus was fairly off the earth, he began to lose the vigor which he had gained by touching it.

Who acts: Antaeus · What happens: be, begin, lose, gain, touch · To what, where: that, earth, vigor

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), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 thing	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thing	det
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 wonderful	advmod
4	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 that	cop
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 that	punct
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 thing	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 soon	punct
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 soon	advmod
11	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 that	advmod
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 earth	mark
13	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 earth	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 earth	cop
15	fairly	fairly	ADV	_	18 earth	advmod
16	off	off	ADP	_	18 earth	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 earth	det
18	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 soon	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 earth	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 began	nsubj
21	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 earth	acl:relcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 lose	mark
23	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 began	xcomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 vigor	det
25	vigor	vigor	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lose	obj
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 gained	nsubj:pass
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 gained	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 gained	aux
29	gained	gain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 vigor	acl:relcl
30	by	by	SCONJ	_	31 touching	mark
31	touching	touch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 gained	advcl
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 touching	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		that	soon property	tree rules
2	is	past	Antaeus		off the earth; fairly property	tree rules
3	begin	past	Antaeus	the earth not said here		tree rules
4	lose	to-infinitive	Antaeus not said here	the vigor		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vigor=Eventuality
5	gain	past · perfect · passive		the vigor		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	touch	gerund		vigor		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/8/96/