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title: And, on their parts, the Pygmies loved Antaeus with as much affectio… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And, on their parts, the Pygmies loved Antaeus with as much affection as their tiny hearts could hold. Who acts: Pygmies, tiny hearts. 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 31

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And, on their parts, the Pygmies loved Antaeus with as much affection as their tiny hearts could hold.

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**Who acts:** Pygmies, tiny hearts · **What happens:** love, hold · **To what, where:** Antaeus, parts

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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 (Pygmies, tiny hearts), 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:pg976:7:31
# text = And, on their parts, the Pygmies loved Antaeus with as much affection as their tiny hearts could hold.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Pygmies	Pygmy	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	affection	affection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | past | the Pygmies | Antaeus |  | feet's parts |  | with much affection | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer antaeus=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hold** | could | feet's tiny hearts |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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