Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 63
"I am your enemy," answered the valiant Pygmy, in his mightiest squeak. "
Who acts: enemy · What happens: be, answer, squeak · To what, where: enemy, valiant Pygmy · 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 (enemy), 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 enemy | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 enemy | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 enemy | cop |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 5 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 enemy | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 enemy | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Pygmy | det |
| 10 | valiant | valiant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Pygmy | amod |
| 11 | Pygmy | Pygmy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 squeak | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 squeak | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 squeak | nmod:poss |
| 15 | mightiest | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 squeak | amod |
| 16 | squeak | squeak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 squeak | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 squeak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | your enemy = enemy | your enemy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | your enemy | the valiant Pygmy | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent pygmy=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | squeak | enemy | nom squeak «event intransitive»: poss=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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