Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 68

But here, on the palm of my hand, stands a wonder that outdoes them all!

Who acts: wonder · What happens: stand, outdo · To what, where: wonder, palm, wonders

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 (wonder), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 here	cc
2	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 stands	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 here	punct
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 palm	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 palm	det
6	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stands	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 hand	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hand	nmod:poss
9	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 palm	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 palm	punct
11	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 wonder	det
13	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stands	obj
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 outdoes	nsubj
15	outdoes	outdo	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 wonder	acl:relcl
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 outdoes	obj
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 them	nmod:unmarked
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 stands	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	present		a wonder		the palm of my hand; here			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wonder=Theme on palm=Destination
2	outdo	present	a wonder	wonders = wonder					vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme

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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