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title: This latter remark of the Pygmies pricked him deeper than their swor… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This latter remark of the Pygmies pricked him deeper than their swords; and, sitting up, in rather a sulky humor, he gave a gape of several yards wide, rubbed his eyes, and finally turned his stupid head in the direction whither his little friends were eagerly pointing. Who acts: latter remark, Anta
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 36

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This latter remark of the Pygmies pricked him deeper than their swords; and, sitting up, in rather a sulky humor, he gave a gape of several yards wide, rubbed his eyes, and finally turned his stupid head in the direction whither his little friends were eagerly pointing.

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**Who acts:** latter remark, Antaeus, little friends, several yards · **What happens:** prick, sit up, give, rub, turn, be · **To what, where:** Antaeus, sulky humor, gape, eyes, stupid head, eagerly pointing

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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 (latter remark, Antaeus, little friends, several yards), 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:pg976:8:36
# text = This latter remark of the Pygmies pricked him deeper than their swords; and, sitting up, in rather a sulky humor, he gave a gape of several yards wide, rubbed his eyes, and finally turned his stupid head in the direction whither his little friends were eagerly pointing.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	remark	remark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Pygmies	Pygmy	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	pricked	prick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	deeper	deep	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	xcomp	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	swords	sword	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	advcl	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	sulky	sulky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	humor	humor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	gape	gape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	yards	yard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
32	wide	wide	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	rubbed	rub	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
42	stupid	stupid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
47	whither	whither	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	53	advmod	_	_
48	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
49	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	nsubj	_	_
51	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	cop	_	_
52	eagerly	eagerly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	pointing	pointing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prick** | past | this latter remark of the Pygmies | Antaeus |  |  |  | deep *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient |
| 2 | **sit up** | gerund | this latter remark of the Pygmies *not said here* |  |  | a sulky humor |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in humor=Location |
| 3 | **give** | past | Antaeus | a gape of several yards |  |  |  | wide *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gape=Theme |
| 4 | **rub** | past | Antaeus *not said here* | Antaeus's eyes |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
| 5 | **turn** | past | this latter remark of the Pygmies *not said here* | Antaeus's stupid head |  |  |  | in the direction; finally *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Patient in direction=Topic |
| 6 | **is a** | past | Antaeus's little friends | eagerly pointing |  |  |  | whither *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **remark** |  |  | the Pygmies |  |  |  |  | nom remark «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 8 | **gape** |  | several yards |  |  |  |  |  | nom gape «communication intransitive»: of=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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