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title: There he used to stand, a perfect mountain of a man, with his great… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There he used to stand, a perfect mountain of a man, with his great countenance smiling down upon his little brothers, and his one vast eye (which was as big as a cart wheel, and placed right in the center of his forehead) giving a friendly wink to the whole nation at once. Who acts: Antaeus, great 
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 22

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There he used to stand, a perfect mountain of a man, with his great countenance smiling down upon his little brothers, and his one vast eye (which was as big as a cart wheel, and placed right in the center of his forehead) giving a friendly wink to the whole nation at once.

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**Who acts:** Antaeus, great countenance, one vast eye · **What happens:** use, stand, smile down, be, place, give · **To what, where:** perfect mountain, center, friendly wink, whole nation

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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 (Antaeus, great countenance, one vast eye), 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:pg976:7:22
# text = There he used to stand, a perfect mountain of a man, with his great countenance smiling down upon his little brothers, and his one vast eye (which was as big as a cart wheel, and placed right in the center of his forehead) giving a friendly wink to the whole nation at once.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	countenance	countenance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
18	smiling	smile	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
19	down	down	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
28	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
30	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
33	as	as	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
35	as	as	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	cart	cart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	conj	_	_
42	right	right	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	center	center	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	forehead	forehead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	34	punct	_	_
50	giving	give	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	acl	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	wink	wink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	_
54	to	to	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
56	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
58	at	at	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past | Antaeus | a perfect mountain of a man |  | there |  | with Antaeus's great countenance; Antaeus's one vast eye *obl* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **stand** | to-infinitive | Antaeus *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **smile down** | gerund | Antaeus's great countenance *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon Antaeus's little brothers; down *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | Antaeus's one vast eye |  |  |  |  | as a cart wheel; big *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **place** | participle | Antaeus's one vast eye *not said here* |  |  | the center of Antaeus's forehead |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in center=Destination |
| 6 | **give** | gerund | Antaeus's one vast eye *not said here* | a friendly wink | the whole nation |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent wink=Theme to nation=Recipient at once=Asset |

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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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