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title: He might have set his immense foot upon a multitude; and when he too… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He might have set his immense foot upon a multitude; and when he took it up again, there would have been a pitiful sight, to be sure. Who acts: Antaeus. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 29

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He might have set his immense foot upon a multitude; and when he took it up again, there would have been a pitiful sight, to be sure.

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**Who acts:** Antaeus · **What happens:** set, take up, be · **To what, where:** Antaeus, multitude, pitiful sight

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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), 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:pg976:7:29
# text = He might have set his immense foot upon a multitude; and when he took it up again, there would have been a pitiful sight, to be sure.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	immense	immense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	multitude	multitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
18	again	again	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	26	expl	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux	_	_
23	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	cop	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	pitiful	pitiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	cop	_	_
30	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | might · perfect · passive |  | Antaeus |  |  |  | upon a multitude | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme foot=Destination |
| 2 | **take up** | past | Antaeus | multitude |  |  | again |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | would · perfect |  | a pitiful sight |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | to-infinitive | Antaeus *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | 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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