Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 2

And when his deep, regular breathing gave them notice that he was asleep, they assembled together in an immense crowd, spreading over a space of about twenty-seven feet square.

Who acts: deep regular breathing, breathing, heads, Hercules · What happens: give, notice, be, assemble, spread, breathe · To what, where: heads, immense crowd, space

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 (deep regular breathing, breathing, heads, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	17 assembled	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 gave	advmod
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 breathing	nmod:poss
4	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 breathing	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 deep	punct
6	regular	regular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 breathing	amod
7	breathing	breathing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gave	nsubj
8	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 assembled	advcl
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gave	iobj
10	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 gave	xcomp
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 asleep	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 asleep	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 asleep	cop
14	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 notice	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 gave	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 assembled	nsubj
17	assembled	assemble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	together	together	ADV	_	17 assembled	advmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 crowd	case
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 crowd	det
21	immense	immense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 crowd	amod
22	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 assembled	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 spreading	punct
24	spreading	spread	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 assembled	advcl
25	over	over	ADP	_	27 space	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 space	det
27	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 spreading	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	34 square	case
29	about	about	ADV	_	30 twenty	advmod
30	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 square	nummod
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 twenty	punct
32	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 twenty	flat
33	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 square	compound
34	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 space	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 assembled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past	Hercules's deep regular breathing	heads = head			tree rules
2	notice	infinitive	Hercules's deep regular breathing not said here				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	breathing			asleep property	tree rules
4	assemble	past	heads = head		a immense crowd	together property	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	spread	gerund	heads = head not said here		a space of twenty feet square		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over space=Location
6	breathe		Hercules				nom breathing «act intransitive»: poss=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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