Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 61

It chanced to be the very identical Pygmy who had spoken from the top of the toadstool, and had offered himself as a champion to meet Hercules in single combat.

Who acts: distance · What happens: chance, speak, offer, meet · To what, where: identical Pygmy, top, conflagration, Hercules, single combat · 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 (distance), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 chanced	nsubj
2	chanced	chance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	11 spoken	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 spoken	aux:pass
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Pygmy	det
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 identical	advmod
7	identical	identical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Pygmy	amod
8	Pygmy	Pygmy	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 spoken	nsubj:pass
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 spoken	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 spoken	aux
11	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 chanced	advcl
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 top	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 top	det
14	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 spoken	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 toadstool	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 toadstool	det
17	toadstool	toadstool	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 top	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 offered	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 offered	cc
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 offered	aux
21	offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 chanced	conj
22	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 offered	iobj
23	as	as	ADP	_	25 champion	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 champion	det
25	champion	champion	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 offered	obl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 meet	mark
27	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 offered	advcl
28	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 meet	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 combat	case
30	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 combat	amod
31	combat	combat	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 meet	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 chanced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	chance	past	distance					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	speak speech: other	to-infinitive · perfect · passive		the identical Pygmy		the top of the toadstool		tree rules
3	offer	past · perfect	distance not said here		conflagration		as a champion	vn volunteer-95.4 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent himself=Pivot as champion=Attribute
4	meet	to-infinitive	distance not said here	Hercules		single combat		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hercules=Co-Agent

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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