Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 66

Hercules was so tickled with the Pygmy's big words and warlike gestures, that he burst into a great explosion of laughter, and almost dropped the poor little mite of a creature off the palm of his hand, through the ecstasy and convulsion of his merriment.

Who acts: Hercules, Pygmy · What happens: tickle, burst, drop, word, explode · To what, where: Hercules, great explosion, poor little mite, ecstasy, laughter

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 (Hercules, Pygmy), 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	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tickled	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tickled	aux:pass
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 tickled	advmod
4	tickled	tickle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	10 words	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Pygmy	det
7	Pygmy	Pygmy	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 words	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Pygmy	case
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 words	amod
10	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tickled	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 gestures	cc
12	warlike	warlike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 gestures	amod
13	gestures	gesture	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 words	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 burst	punct
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 burst	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 burst	nsubj
17	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tickled	parataxis
18	into	into	ADP	_	21 explosion	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 explosion	det
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 explosion	amod
21	explosion	explosion	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 burst	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 laughter	case
23	laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 explosion	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 dropped	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 dropped	cc
26	almost	almost	ADV	_	27 dropped	advmod
27	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 burst	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 mite	det
29	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 mite	amod
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 mite	amod
31	mite	mite	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dropped	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 creature	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 creature	det
34	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 mite	nmod
35	off	off	ADP	_	37 palm	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 palm	det
37	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 creature	nmod
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 hand	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 hand	nmod:poss
40	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 palm	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 ecstasy	punct
42	through	through	ADP	_	44 ecstasy	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 ecstasy	det
44	ecstasy	ecstasy	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dropped	obl
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 convulsion	cc
46	convulsion	convulsion	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 ecstasy	conj
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 merriment	case
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 merriment	nmod:poss
49	merriment	merriment	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 ecstasy	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tickled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tickle	past · passive		Hercules		with the Pygmy's big words and warlike gestures	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Experiencer with word=Instrument
2	burst	past	Hercules		a great explosion of laughter		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	drop	past	Hercules not said here	the poor little mite of a creature off the palm of Hercules's hand	the ecstasy of Hercules's merriment and convulsion	almost property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mite=Theme through ecstasy=Destination
4	word		the Pygmy				nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent
5	explode			laughter			nom explosion «event transitive»: of=patient

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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