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title: If Hercules heard their shrieks, however, he took no notice, and per… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: If Hercules heard their shrieks, however, he took no notice, and perhaps fancied them only the shrill, plaintive twittering of small birds that had been frightened from their nests by the uproar of the battle between himself and Antaeus. Who acts: Hercules, uproar, Pygmies. A sentence of «Tanglewood
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 106

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If Hercules heard their shrieks, however, he took no notice, and perhaps fancied them only the shrill, plaintive twittering of small birds that had been frightened from their nests by the uproar of the battle between himself and Antaeus.

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**Who acts:** Hercules, uproar, Pygmies · **What happens:** hear, take, fancy, frighten, shriek · **To what, where:** shrieks, notice, Pygmies, small birds, nests

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hercules, uproar, Pygmies), 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:pg976:8:106
# text = If Hercules heard their shrieks, however, he took no notice, and perhaps fancied them only the shrill, plaintive twittering of small birds that had been frightened from their nests by the uproar of the battle between himself and Antaeus.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	shrieks	shriek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	however	however	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	notice	notice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	fancied	fancy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	only	only	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	shrill	shrill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	plaintive	plaintive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	twittering	twittering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl:relcl	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	nests	nest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
34	by	by	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	uproar	uproar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
40	between	between	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	39	nmod	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **hear** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Hercules | Pygmies's shrieks |  |  |  | however *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer shriek=Stimulus |
| 2 | **take** | past | Hercules | no notice |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme |
| 3 | **fancy** | past | Hercules *not said here* | Pygmies *= pygmy* |  |  |  | the shrill plaintive twittering of small birds *obl*; perhaps *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 4 | **frighten** | past · perfect · passive | the uproar of the battle between Hercules | small birds |  | Pygmies's nests |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |
| 5 | **shriek** |  | Pygmies *= pygmy* |  |  |  |  |  | nom shriek «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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