Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 39

For, as these sage counselors remarked, the stranger's club was really very big, and had rattled like a thunderbolt against the skull of Antaeus.

Who acts: sage counselors, club · What happens: remark, be, rattle

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 (sage counselors, club), 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	For	for	SCONJ	_	7 remarked	mark
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 remarked	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 remarked	mark
4	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 counselors	det
5	sage	sage	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 counselors	amod
6	counselors	counselor	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 remarked	nsubj
7	remarked	remark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 big	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 remarked	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stranger	det
10	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 club	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 stranger	case
12	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 big	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 big	cop
14	really	really	ADV	_	16 big	advmod
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 big	advmod
16	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 rattled	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 rattled	cc
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 rattled	aux
20	rattled	rattle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 big	conj
21	like	like	ADP	_	23 thunderbolt	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 thunderbolt	det
23	thunderbolt	thunderbolt	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 rattled	obl
24	against	against	ADP	_	26 skull	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 skull	det
26	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 thunderbolt	nmod
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 Antaeus	case
28	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 skull	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 big	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	remark speech: assert	participle	this sage counselors		vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the stranger's club	big property	tree rules
3	rattle	past · perfect	the stranger's club not said here	like a thunderbolt against the skull of Antaeus	vn animal_sounds-38 «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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