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title: But the Pygmy looked again, and now perceived that the stranger was… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But the Pygmy looked again, and now perceived that the stranger was coming directly towards the prostrate form of Antaeus. Who acts: Pygmy, stranger. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 17

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But the Pygmy looked again, and now perceived that the stranger was coming directly towards the prostrate form of Antaeus.

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**Who acts:** Pygmy, stranger · **What happens:** look, perceive, come, form · **To what, where:** prostrate form, Antaeus

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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 (Pygmy, stranger), 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:pg976:8:17
# text = But the Pygmy looked again, and now perceived that the stranger was coming directly towards the prostrate form of Antaeus.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Pygmy	Pygmy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
9	perceived	perceive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
15	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	prostrate	prostrate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | the Pygmy |  |  |  | again |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **perceive** | past | the Pygmy *not said here* |  |  |  | now |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **come** | past · progressive | the stranger |  |  | the prostrate form of Antaeus |  | directly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme towards form=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **form** |  |  | Antaeus |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication 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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