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title: Whenever Antaeus took a walk, supposing it were but ten miles, and t… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Whenever Antaeus took a walk, supposing it were but ten miles, and that he stepped a hundred yards at a stride, you may try to cipher out how much mightier he was, on sitting down again, than when he first started. Who acts: Antaeus, supposing, you. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawt
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 45

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Whenever Antaeus took a walk, supposing it were but ten miles, and that he stepped a hundred yards at a stride, you may try to cipher out how much mightier he was, on sitting down again, than when he first started.

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**Who acts:** Antaeus, supposing, you · **What happens:** take, suppose, be, step, try, cipher out · **To what, where:** walk, ten miles, hundred yards, stride

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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 (Antaeus, supposing, you), 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:pg976:8:45
# text = Whenever Antaeus took a walk, supposing it were but ten miles, and that he stepped a hundred yards at a stride, you may try to cipher out how much mightier he was, on sitting down again, than when he first started.
1	Whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	3	advmod	_	_
2	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	supposing	suppose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	csubj	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	stepped	step	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	yards	yard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	stride	stride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	cipher	cipher	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	out	out	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	32	advmod	_	_
32	much	much	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	mightier	mighty	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	conj	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
38	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	parataxis	_	_
39	down	down	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
40	again	again	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
42	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
43	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	46	advmod	_	_
44	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
45	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	46	advmod	_	_
46	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Antaeus | a walk |  |  |  | whenever *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent walk=Theme |
| 2 | **suppose** | gerund |  | walk |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute |
| 3 | **is a** | past | supposing | ten miles |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **step** | past | Antaeus | hundred yards |  | a stride |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **try** | may | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **cipher out** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** | past | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | mighty *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **sit down** | gerund |  |  |  |  | again | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **start** | past | Antaeus |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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