Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 72
Hercules was touched with the little man's dauntless courage, and could not help acknowledging such a brotherhood with him as one hero feels for another.
Who acts: one hero · What happens: touch, not help, acknowledge, feel · To what, where: Hercules, brotherhood
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 (one hero), 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 | 3 touched | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 touched | aux:pass |
| 3 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 courage | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 courage | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 man | case |
| 9 | dauntless | dauntless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 courage | amod |
| 10 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 touched | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 help | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 help | cc |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 help | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 help | advmod |
| 15 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 touched | conj |
| 16 | acknowledging | acknowledge | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 help | xcomp |
| 17 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 brotherhood | det:predet |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 brotherhood | det |
| 19 | brotherhood | brotherhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 acknowledging | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 acknowledging | obl |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 feels | mark |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 hero | nummod |
| 24 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 feels | nsubj |
| 25 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 acknowledging | advcl |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 another | case |
| 27 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 feels | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past · passive | Hercules | with the little man's dauntless courage | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Experiencer with courage=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | not help | could | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | acknowledge not said to happen | gerund | such brotherhood | with Hercules | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brotherhood=Topic | ||||
| 4 | feel | present | one hero | for another | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for another=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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