Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 38
Moreover, if awakened, and allowed to get upon his feet, Hercules might happen to do them a mischief before he could be beaten down again.
Who acts: Hercules · What happens: awaken, allow, get, happen, do, beat down · To what, where: feet, Hercules
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 (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 | Moreover | moreover | ADV | _ | 4 awakened | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Moreover | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 awakened | mark |
| 4 | awakened | awaken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 allowed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 allowed | cc |
| 7 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 awakened | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 get | mark |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 allowed | xcomp |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 feet | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 feet | nmod:poss |
| 12 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 get | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 happen | punct |
| 14 | Hercules | Hercules | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 happen | nsubj |
| 15 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 happen | aux |
| 16 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 allowed | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 do | mark |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 happen | xcomp |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 do | obj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 mischief | det |
| 21 | mischief | mischief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 do | obj |
| 22 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 26 beaten | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 beaten | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 beaten | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 beaten | aux:pass |
| 26 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 do | advcl |
| 27 | down | down | ADP | _ | 26 beaten | compound:prt |
| 28 | again | again | ADV | _ | 26 beaten | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 awakened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awaken | participle | moreover property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | allow | participle | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | upon Hercules's feet | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | happen | might | Hercules | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | Hercules not said here | feet = foot | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | beat down | could · passive | Hercules | again | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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.
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