Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 1
As soon as the Pygmies saw Hercules preparing for a nap, they nodded their little heads at one another, and winked with their little eyes.
Who acts: Pygmies, Hercules · What happens: see, prepare, nod, wink · To what, where: Hercules, little heads
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pygmies, 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 nodded | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 saw | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Pygmies | det |
| 5 | Pygmies | pygmy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 nodded | advcl |
| 7 | Hercules | Hercules | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obj |
| 8 | preparing | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 Hercules | acl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 nap | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 nap | det |
| 11 | nap | nap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 preparing | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 nodded | nsubj |
| 14 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 heads | nmod:poss |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 heads | amod |
| 17 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 nodded | obj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 one | case |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 nodded | obl |
| 20 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 one | fixed |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 winked | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 winked | cc |
| 23 | winked | wink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 nodded | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 eyes | case |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 26 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 eyes | amod |
| 27 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 winked | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 nodded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Pygmies | Hercules | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hercules=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | prepare | gerund | Hercules not said here | for a nap | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for nap=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | nod | past | Pygmies = pygmy | Pygmies's little heads | at one; soon property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | |||
| 4 | wink | participle | Pygmies = pygmy not said here | with Pygmies's little eyes | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=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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