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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 1

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A great while ago, when the world was full of wonders, there lived an earth-born Giant, named Antaeus, and a million or more of curious little earth-born people, who were called Pygmies.

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**Who acts:** world · **What happens:** be, live, bear, name, call · **To what, where:** an, curious little born people · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (world), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg976:7:1
# text = A great while ago, when the world was full of wonders, there lived an earth-born Giant, named Antaeus, and a million or more of curious little earth-born people, who were called Pygmies.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	10	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	wonders	wonder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	_
15	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	ccomp	_	_
20	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
23	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	conj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
31	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
32	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
33	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	amod	_	_
36	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	40	nsubj:pass	_	_
39	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux:pass	_	_
40	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	acl:relcl	_	_
41	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the world |  |  |  |  | of wonders; ago, full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | past | the world *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bear** | participle · passive |  | an |  |  |  | a million *obl*; giant *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **name** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **bear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **call** | past · passive |  | curious little born people |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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.

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**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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