Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 52
"What's all this?" he cried, bewildered with sleep, and staring about him as if he expected to see another Giant.
Who acts: Hercules · What happens: be, cry, bewilder, stare, expect, see · To what, where: this, Giant · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 this | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 this | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 this | cop |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 this | det:predet |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 cried | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 this | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 this | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bewildered | punct |
| 11 | bewildered | bewilder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 cried | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 sleep | case |
| 13 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bewildered | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 staring | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 staring | cc |
| 16 | staring | stare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 cried | advcl |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 staring | obl |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 expected | mark |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 expected | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 expected | nsubj |
| 22 | expected | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 staring | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 see | mark |
| 24 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 expected | xcomp |
| 25 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 Giant | det |
| 26 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 see | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | this | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Hercules | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bewilder | participle | Hercules not said here | with sleep | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | stare | gerund | Hercules not said here | about Hercules | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | expect | past | Hercules | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | Hercules not said here | another Giant | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer giant=Stimulus |
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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