Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 60

He stooped down, and taking up the nearest one between his thumb and finger, set him on the palm of his left hand, and held him at a proper distance for examination.

Who acts: conflagration · What happens: stoop down, take up, set, hold · To what, where: nearest one, conflagration, palm

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stooped	nsubj
2	stooped	stoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 stooped	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 taking	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 taking	cc
6	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stooped	advcl
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 taking	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 one	det
9	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 one	amod
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taking	obj
11	between	between	ADP	_	13 thumb	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 thumb	nmod:poss
13	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 one	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 finger	cc
15	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thumb	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 set	punct
17	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 taking	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 set	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 palm	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 palm	det
21	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 set	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 hand	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 hand	nmod:poss
24	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 hand	amod
25	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 palm	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 held	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 held	cc
28	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stooped	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 held	obj
30	at	at	ADP	_	33 distance	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 distance	det
32	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 distance	amod
33	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 held	obl
34	for	for	ADP	_	35 examination	case
35	examination	examination	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 distance	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stooped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stoop down	past	conflagration				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	take up	gerund	conflagration not said here	the nearest one		between conflagration's thumb and finger	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
3	set	infinitive	conflagration not said here	conflagration	the palm of conflagration's left hand		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on palm=Destination
4	hold	past	conflagration not said here	conflagration		at a proper distance for examination	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme at distance=Location

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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