Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 41

Accordingly, all the fighting men of the nation took their weapons, and went boldly up to Hercules, who still lay fast asleep, little dreaming of the harm which the Pygmies meant to do him.

Who acts: fighting men, Pygmies · What happens: take, go, lay, dream, mean, do · To what, where: weapons, Hercules, little, harm

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 (fighting men, Pygmies), 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	Accordingly	accordingly	ADV	_	10 took	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Accordingly	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 men	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 men	det
5	fighting	fighting	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 men	compound
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 took	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 nation	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 nation	det
9	nation	nation	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 men	nmod
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 weapons	nmod:poss
12	weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 took	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 went	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 went	cc
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 took	conj
16	boldly	boldly	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 went	advmod
17	up	up	ADP	_	19 Hercules	case
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 Hercules	case
19	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 went	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 lay	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 lay	nsubj
22	still	still	ADV	_	23 lay	advmod
23	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 took	advcl
24	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 lay	advmod
25	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 lay	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 little	punct
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 lay	obl
28	dreaming	dream	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 little	acl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 harm	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 harm	det
31	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 dreaming	obl
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 meant	obj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Pygmies	det
34	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 meant	nsubj
35	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 harm	acl:relcl
36	to	to	PART	_	37 do	mark
37	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 meant	xcomp
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 do	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	all fighting men of the nation	men's weapons			accordingly property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weapon=Theme
2	go	past	all fighting men of the nation not said here		Hercules		boldly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme up hercules=Initial_Location
3	lay	present		little		still	asleep, fast property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	dream	gerund					of the harm	vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
5	mean	past	the Pygmies	the harm				tree rules
6	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Pygmies not said here	Hercules				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality

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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