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title: And whenever he flung himself on the earth to take a little repose,… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And whenever he flung himself on the earth to take a little repose, even if he got up the very next instant, he would be as strong as exactly ten just such giants as his former self. Who acts: Antaeus. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 2, with its dependency
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 46

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And whenever he flung himself on the earth to take a little repose, even if he got up the very next instant, he would be as strong as exactly ten just such giants as his former self.

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**Who acts:** Antaeus · **What happens:** fling, take, get up, be · **To what, where:** Antaeus, earth, little repose, next instant

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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), 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:pg976:8:46
# text = And whenever he flung himself on the earth to take a little repose, even if he got up the very next instant, he would be as strong as exactly ten just such giants as his former self.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
2	whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
5	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	repose	repose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	even	even	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	very	very	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	cop	_	_
28	as	as	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
30	as	as	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
31	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
33	just	just	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
34	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
36	as	as	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
38	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fling** | past | Antaeus | Antaeus |  | the earth |  | whenever *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on earth=Destination |
| 2 | **take** | to-infinitive | Antaeus *not said here* | a little repose |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent repose=Theme |
| 3 | **get up** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Antaeus | the next instant |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer instant=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | would | Antaeus |  |  |  |  | as ten such giants as Antaeus's former self; strong *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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