Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 14
And there lies this dear brother--this sweet and amiable friend--this brave and faithful ally---this virtuous Giant--this blameless and excellent Antaeus--dead!
Who acts: this · What happens: lie, friend · To what, where: dear brother
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 (this), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 lies | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 lies | expl |
| 3 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 brother | det |
| 5 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 brother | amod |
| 6 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lies | obj |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 friend | punct |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 friend | nsubj |
| 9 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 friend | amod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 amiable | cc |
| 11 | amiable | amiable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sweet | conj |
| 12 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brother | conj |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 Giant | punct |
| 14 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 Giant | nsubj |
| 15 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Giant | amod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 faithful | cc |
| 17 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 brave | conj |
| 18 | ally | ally | ADV | _ | 17 faithful | advmod |
| 19 | --- | --- | PUNCT | _ | 22 Giant | punct |
| 20 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 Giant | nsubj |
| 21 | virtuous | virtuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Giant | amod |
| 22 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lies | parataxis |
| 23 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 28 Antaeus | punct |
| 24 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 Antaeus | nsubj |
| 25 | blameless | blameless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Antaeus | amod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 excellent | cc |
| 27 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 blameless | conj |
| 28 | Antaeus | Antaeus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Giant | obl |
| 29 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 30 dead | punct |
| 30 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Giant | conj |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | this dear brother and sweet friend | there | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location brother=Theme | ||||
| 2 | friend | this | 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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