Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 55

"Villain!" shouted all the Pygmies at once. "

Who acts: Villain · What happens: shout · To what, where: Pygmies

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 (Villain), 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	_	2 Villain	punct
2	Villain	villain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shouted	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Villain	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Villain	punct
5	shouted	shout	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 Pygmies	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Pygmies	det
8	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 shouted	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 once	case
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 shouted	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 shouted	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 shouted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	past	Villain	all Pygmies					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pygmy=Topic

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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