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title: Still the stranger drew nearer; and now the Pygmies could plainly di… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Still the stranger drew nearer; and now the Pygmies could plainly discern that, if his stature were less lofty than the Giant's, yet his shoulders were even broader. Who acts: you, stranger, Pygmies, stature. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 2, with its dep
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 27

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Still the stranger drew nearer; and now the Pygmies could plainly discern that, if his stature were less lofty than the Giant's, yet his shoulders were even broader.

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**Who acts:** you, stranger, Pygmies, stature, shoulders · **What happens:** still, draw, discern, be · **To what, where:** that

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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 (you, stranger, Pygmies, stature), 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:pg976:8:27
# text = Still the stranger drew nearer; and now the Pygmies could plainly discern that, if his stature were less lofty than the Giant's, yet his shoulders were even broader.
1	Still	still	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
5	nearer	near	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
8	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	plainly	plainly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	discern	discern	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	stature	stature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	_
21	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	parataxis	_	_
22	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
30	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	even	even	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	broader	broad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **still** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **draw** | past | the stranger |  |  |  |  | near *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **discern** | could | the Pygmies | that |  |  | now | plainly *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | stranger's stature |  |  |  |  | less, lofty *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | stranger's stature *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | past | stranger's shoulders |  |  |  |  | broad *property* | tree rules |

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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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