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title: It is a very pleasant picture to imagine Antaeus standing among the… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It is a very pleasant picture to imagine Antaeus standing among the Pygmies, like the spire of the tallest cathedral that ever was built, while they ran about like pismires at his feet; and to think that, in spite of their difference in size, there were affection and sympathy between them and him! W
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 40

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It is a very pleasant picture to imagine Antaeus standing among the Pygmies, like the spire of the tallest cathedral that ever was built, while they ran about like pismires at his feet; and to think that, in spite of their difference in size, there were affection and sympathy between them and him!

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**Who acts:** review, Pygmies, affection · **What happens:** be, imagine, stand, build, run about, think · **To what, where:** pleasant picture, Antaeus, Pygmies, tallest cathedral, feet, that

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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 (review, Pygmies, affection), 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:pg976:7:40
# text = It is a very pleasant picture to imagine Antaeus standing among the Pygmies, like the spire of the tallest cathedral that ever was built, while they ran about like pismires at his feet; and to think that, in spite of their difference in size, there were affection and sympathy between them and him!
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
11	among	among	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	spire	spire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	tallest	tall	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	amod	_	_
21	cathedral	cathedral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	25	advmod	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
30	about	about	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	like	like	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	pismires	pismire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	think	think	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	29	parataxis	_	_
40	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	difference	difference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	51	expl	_	_
51	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	parataxis	_	_
52	affection	affection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	sympathy	sympathy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	conj	_	_
55	between	between	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nmod	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
58	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | review | a pleasant picture |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **imagine** | to-infinitive |  | Antaeus |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stand** | gerund |  |  |  | the Pygmies |  | like the spire of the tallest cathedral | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among pygmy=Location |
| 4 | **build** | past · passive |  | the tallest cathedral |  |  | ever |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 5 | **run about** | past | Pygmies *= pygmy* |  |  | Antaeus's feet |  | like pismires; about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at foot=Trajectory |
| 6 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  | that |  | spite of Pygmies's difference in size |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme |
| 7 | **be** | past | affection and sympathy between Pygmies |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **spite** |  |  | Pygmies's difference in size |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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