Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 8

And, adding a grievous contumely to the wrong already done us, the miscreant has now fallen asleep as quietly as if nothing were to be dreaded from our wrath!

Who acts: adding, miscreant · What happens: add, do, fall, dread · To what, where: grievous contumely, us, nothing, wrath

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 (adding, miscreant), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	11 done	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 adding	punct
3	adding	add	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 done	csubj:pass
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 contumely	det
5	grievous	grievous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 contumely	amod
6	contumely	contumely	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 adding	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 wrong	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wrong	det
9	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 adding	obl
10	already	already	ADV	_	11 done	advmod
11	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 done	iobj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fallen	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 miscreant	det
15	miscreant	miscreant	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fallen	nsubj
16	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 fallen	aux
17	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 fallen	advmod
18	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 done	conj
19	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 fallen	xcomp
20	as	as	ADV	_	21 quietly	advmod
21	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	18 fallen	advmod
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 dreaded	mark
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 dreaded	mark
24	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	28 dreaded	nsubj:pass
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 dreaded	aux:pass
26	to	to	PART	_	28 dreaded	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 dreaded	aux:pass
28	dreaded	dread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 fallen	advcl
29	from	from	ADP	_	31 wrath	case
30	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 wrath	nmod:poss
31	wrath	wrath	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 dreaded	obl
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	gerund		a grievous contumely				to the wrong	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent contumely=Patient to wrong=Co-Patient
2	do	participle	adding		us				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Eventuality
3	fall	present · perfect	the miscreant				now	asleep, quietly property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	dread	past · passive		nothing		our wrath			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

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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