Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 59

At last, however, looking narrowly on the ground, he espied the innumerable assemblage of Pygmies at his feet.

Who acts: conflagration · What happens: look, espy · To what, where: innumerable assemblage, last

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 (conflagration), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 espied	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 last	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	13 espied	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 espied	advcl
7	narrowly	narrowly	ADV	_	6 looking	advmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 ground	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ground	det
10	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looking	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 looking	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 espied	nsubj
13	espied	espy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 assemblage	det
15	innumerable	innumerable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 assemblage	amod
16	assemblage	assemblage	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 espied	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 Pygmies	case
18	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 assemblage	nmod
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 feet	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 feet	nmod:poss
21	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 Pygmies	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 espied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	gerund	conflagration not said here					on the ground; narrowly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on ground=Theme
2	espy	past	conflagration	the innumerable assemblage of Pygmies at conflagration's feet		last		however property	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer assemblage=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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