Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 97

Hercules very soon perceived that his troublesome enemy was growing weaker, both because he struggled and kicked with less violence, and because the thunder of his big voice subsided into a grumble.

Who acts: Hercules, troublesome enemy, enemy, thunder, big voice · What happens: perceive, grow, struggle, kick, subside, thunder · To what, where: both, grumble

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, troublesome enemy, enemy, thunder), 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	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 perceived	nsubj
2	very	very	ADV	_	4 perceived	advmod
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 perceived	advmod
4	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 growing	mark
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 enemy	nmod:poss
7	troublesome	troublesome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 enemy	amod
8	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 growing	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 growing	aux
10	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 perceived	advcl
11	weaker	weak	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 growing	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 both	punct
13	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 perceived	obl
14	because	because	SCONJ	_	16 struggled	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 struggled	nsubj
16	struggled	struggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 perceived	advcl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 kicked	cc
18	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 struggled	conj
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 violence	case
20	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 violence	amod
21	violence	violence	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 kicked	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 subsided	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 subsided	cc
24	because	because	SCONJ	_	31 subsided	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 thunder	det
26	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 subsided	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 voice	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 voice	nmod:poss
29	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 voice	amod
30	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 thunder	nmod
31	subsided	subside	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 perceived	conj
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 grumble	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 grumble	det
34	grumble	grumble	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 subsided	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 perceived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	perceive	past	Hercules	both		soon property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	grow	past · progressive	Hercules's troublesome enemy			weak property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	struggle	past	enemy				vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	kick	past	enemy not said here			with less violence	vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with violence=Instrument
5	subside	participle	the thunder of Hercules's big voice		a grumble		vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	thunder		Hercules's big voice				nom thunder «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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