Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 67
"Upon my word," cried he, "I thought I had seen wonders before to-day--hydras with nine heads, stags with golden horns, six-legged men, three-headed dogs, giants with furnaces in their stomachs, and nobody knows what besides.
Who acts: Hercules, nobody, my · What happens: cry, think, see, know, beside, word · To what, where: wonders · 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 (Hercules, nobody, my), 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 | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 2 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 word | case |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 word | nmod:poss |
| 4 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 word | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 thought | nsubj |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cried | parataxis |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 seen | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 seen | aux |
| 15 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 thought | ccomp |
| 16 | wonders | wonder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 seen | obj |
| 17 | before | before | ADP | _ | 20 day | case |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 day | case |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 to | punct |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seen | obl |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 hydras | punct |
| 22 | hydras | hydra | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 thought | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 heads | case |
| 24 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 heads | nummod |
| 25 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 hydras | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 stags | punct |
| 27 | stags | stag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 hydras | conj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 horns | case |
| 29 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 horns | amod |
| 30 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 stags | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 men | punct |
| 32 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 legged | nummod |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 six | punct |
| 34 | legged | legged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 men | amod |
| 35 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 horns | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 dogs | punct |
| 37 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 40 dogs | nummod |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 three | punct |
| 39 | headed | headed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 dogs | amod |
| 40 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 men | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 giants | punct |
| 42 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 horns | conj |
| 43 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 furnaces | case |
| 44 | furnaces | furnace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 giants | nmod |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 stomachs | case |
| 46 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 stomachs | nmod:poss |
| 47 | stomachs | stomach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 hydras | nmod |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 knows | punct |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 knows | cc |
| 50 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 51 knows | nsubj |
| 51 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 cried | conj |
| 52 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 53 besides | nsubj |
| 53 | besides | beside | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 51 knows | ccomp |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Hercules | upon my word | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | past | Hercules | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | past · perfect | Hercules | wonders | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wonder=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | know in a quote | present | nobody | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | beside in a quote | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | word in a quote | my | nom word «communication transitive»: 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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