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title: It was a happy circumstance that Antaeus was the Pygmy people's frie… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It was a happy circumstance that Antaeus was the Pygmy people's friend; for there was more strength in his little finger than in ten million of such bodies as this. Who acts: ear, Antaeus. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 1, with its dependency tree and the
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 26

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It was a happy circumstance that Antaeus was the Pygmy people's friend; for there was more strength in his little finger than in ten million of such bodies as this.

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**Who acts:** ear, Antaeus · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** happy circumstance, friend, more strength, little finger

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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 (ear, Antaeus), 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:pg976:7:26
# text = It was a happy circumstance that Antaeus was the Pygmy people's friend; for there was more strength in his little finger than in ten million of such bodies as this.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	circumstance	circumstance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
7	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Pygmy	pygmy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	amod	_	_
19	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
20	in	in	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	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	than	than	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	compound	_	_
27	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
31	as	as	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | ear | a happy circumstance and more strength |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Antaeus | the Pygmy people's friend |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | ear *not said here* | more strength |  | Antaeus's little finger |  | than ten million of such bodies as this | tree rules |

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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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