--- title: He was always ready to do them any good offices that lay in his powe… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: He was always ready to do them any good offices that lay in his power; as for example, when they wanted a breeze to turn their windmills, the Giant would set all the sails a-going with the mere natural respiration of his lungs. Who acts: Antaeus, good offices, feet, breeze. A sentence of «Tanglewood --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/7/32/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Tanglewood Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/) / [The Pygmies., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/7/) / 32 # Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 32 He was always ready to do them any good offices that lay in his power; as for example, when they wanted a breeze to turn their windmills, the Giant would set all the sails a-going with the mere natural respiration of his lungs. **Who acts:** Antaeus, good offices, feet, breeze, Giant, sails · **What happens:** be, do, lay, want, turn, set · **To what, where:** feet, power, breeze, windmills, sails 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, good offices, feet, breeze), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg976:7:32 # text = He was always ready to do them any good offices that lay in his power; as for example, when they wanted a breeze to turn their windmills, the Giant would set all the sails a-going with the mere natural respiration of his lungs. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 4 advmod _ _ 4 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 10 det _ _ 9 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 offices office NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 as as ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 19 case _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 17 fixed _ _ 19 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 23 advmod _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 breeze breeze NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 28 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 windmills windmill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 Giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 nsubj _ _ 33 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 35 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 37 det:predet _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 sails sail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ SpaceAfter=No 39 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 37 acl _ _ 41 with with ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 43 mere mere ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 44 natural natural ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 respiration respiration NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 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 lungs lung NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Antaeus | | | | | always, ready *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | Antaeus *not said here* | feet *= foot* | | | | as example | tree rules | | 3 | **lay** | present | any good offices | | | Antaeus's power | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in power=Destination | | 4 | **want** | past | feet *= foot* | a breeze | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **turn** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a breeze *not said here* | feet's windmills | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent windmill=Theme | | 6 | **set** | would | the Giant | all sails | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient sail=Result | | 7 | **go** | gerund | all sails *not said here* | | | | | with the mere natural respiration of Antaeus's lungs | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with respiration=Beneficiary | | 8 | **respire** | | Antaeus's lungs | | | | | | nom respiration «act intransitive»: of=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/7/31/) - next →: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/7/33/) - ↑ back to [The Pygmies., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/7/)