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title: But Antaeus took it all kindly enough; although, once in a while, wh… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But Antaeus took it all kindly enough; although, once in a while, when he happened to be sleepy, he would grumble out a peevish word or two, like the muttering of a tempest, and ask them to have done with their nonsense. Who acts: Antaeus. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 63

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But Antaeus took it all kindly enough; although, once in a while, when he happened to be sleepy, he would grumble out a peevish word or two, like the muttering of a tempest, and ask them to have done with their nonsense.

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**Who acts:** Antaeus · **What happens:** take, happen, be, grumble out, ask, do · **To what, where:** skin, peevish word, tricks, tempest · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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:pg976:7:63
# text = But Antaeus took it all kindly enough; although, once in a while, when he happened to be sleepy, he would grumble out a peevish word or two, like the muttering of a tempest, and ask them to have done with their nonsense.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
9	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	advmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
21	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	grumble	grumble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	peevish	peevish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	like	like	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	muttering	muttering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	tempest	tempest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
42	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obj	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
44	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	aux	_	_
45	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	41	ccomp	_	_
46	with	with	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Antaeus | skin |  |  | while | enough, kindly, once *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument it=Theme although=Destination |
| 2 | **happen** | past | Antaeus |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | Antaeus *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sleepy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **grumble out** *speech: other* | would | Antaeus | a peevish word |  |  |  | like the muttering of a tempest | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | Antaeus *not said here* |  | tricks *= trick* |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | with tricks's nonsense | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **mutter** |  |  | a tempest |  |  |  |  | nom muttering «event 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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