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title: But with the Pygmies he was the most sportive and humorous, and merr… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But with the Pygmies he was the most sportive and humorous, and merry-hearted, and sweet-tempered old Giant that ever washed his face in a wet cloud. Who acts: Antaeus. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 47

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But with the Pygmies he was the most sportive and humorous, and merry-hearted, and sweet-tempered old Giant that ever washed his face in a wet cloud.

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**Who acts:** Antaeus · **What happens:** be, temper, wash · **To what, where:** face, wet cloud

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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:pg976:7:47
# text = But with the Pygmies he was the most sportive and humorous, and merry-hearted, and sweet-tempered old Giant that ever washed his face in a wet cloud.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Pygmies	Pygmy	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	9	advmod	_	_
9	sportive	sportive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	humorous	humorous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	hearted	hearted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	tempered	temper	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	parataxis	_	_
22	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obj	_	_
25	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	26	advmod	_	_
26	washed	wash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Antaeus |  |  |  |  | with the Pygmies; sportive *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Antaeus *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | Antaeus *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **temper** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | giant *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **wash** | past |  | Antaeus's face |  | a wet cloud | ever |  | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent that=Beneficiary face=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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