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title: During one of these little bits of slumber, a Pygmy chanced to climb… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: During one of these little bits of slumber, a Pygmy chanced to climb upon his shoulder, and took a view around the horizon, as from the summit of a hill; and he beheld something, a long way off, which made him rub the bright specks of his eyes, and look sharper than before. Who acts: one, Giant, lon
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 5

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During one of these little bits of slumber, a Pygmy chanced to climb upon his shoulder, and took a view around the horizon, as from the summit of a hill; and he beheld something, a long way off, which made him rub the bright specks of his eyes, and look sharper than before.

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**Who acts:** one, Giant, long way · **What happens:** chance, climb, take, behold, make, rub · **To what, where:** little bits, shoulder, view, horizon, something, Giant

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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 (one, Giant, long way), 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:pg976:8:5
# text = During one of these little bits of slumber, a Pygmy chanced to climb upon his shoulder, and took a view around the horizon, as from the summit of a hill; and he beheld something, a long way off, which made him rub the bright specks of his eyes, and look sharper than before.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	slumber	slumber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Pygmy	pygmy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
12	chanced	chance	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	view	view	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	around	around	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	horizon	horizon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	summit	summit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	beheld	behold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
38	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	appos	_	_
43	off	off	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	46	nsubj	_	_
46	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	acl:relcl	_	_
47	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obj	_	_
48	rub	rub	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	xcomp	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	specks	speck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obj	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
54	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
57	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	conj	_	_
58	sharper	sharp	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	57	xcomp	_	_
59	than	than	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
60	before	before	ADV	RB	_	58	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chance** | participle |  | this little bits of slumber and a Pygmy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn risk-94-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **climb** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | Giant's shoulder |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon shoulder=Trajectory |
| 3 | **take** | past | one of this little bits of slumber and a Pygmy | a view |  | the horizon |  | as the summit of a hill | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent view=Theme as summit=Attribute |
| 4 | **behold** | past | Giant | something |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus |
| 5 | **make** | past | a long way | Giant |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **rub** | infinitive | Giant *not said here* | the bright specks of Giant's eyes |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent speck=Theme |
| 7 | **look** | infinitive | Giant *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sharp *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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