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title: He carelessly lifted his club, and balanced it in his hand, measurin… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He carelessly lifted his club, and balanced it in his hand, measuring Antaeus with his eye, from head to foot, not as if wonder-smitten at his stature, but as if he had seen a great many Giants before, and this was by no means the biggest of them. Who acts: stranger, no. A sentence of «Tanglewood Ta
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 51

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He carelessly lifted his club, and balanced it in his hand, measuring Antaeus with his eye, from head to foot, not as if wonder-smitten at his stature, but as if he had seen a great many Giants before, and this was by no means the biggest of them.

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**Who acts:** stranger, no · **What happens:** lift, balance, measure, not smite, see, mean · **To what, where:** club, mountain, hand, Antaeus, head, stature

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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 (stranger, no), 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:pg976:8:51
# text = He carelessly lifted his club, and balanced it in his hand, measuring Antaeus with his eye, from head to foot, not as if wonder-smitten at his stature, but as if he had seen a great many Giants before, and this was by no means the biggest of them.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	carelessly	carelessly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	club	club	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	balanced	balance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	measuring	measure	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
15	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	smitten	smite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	stature	stature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
35	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
36	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
37	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
42	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
43	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	Giants	Giant	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	_
45	before	before	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
48	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	51	nsubj	_	_
49	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	cop	_	_
50	by	by	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	52	nsubj	_	_
52	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	52	obj	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift** | past | stranger | stranger's club |  |  |  | carelessly *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=Theme |
| 2 | **balance** | past | stranger *not said here* | mountain |  | stranger's hand |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent it=Theme in hand=Location |
| 3 | **measure** | gerund | stranger *not said here* | Antaeus |  | head to foot |  | with stranger's eye | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme antaeus=Value |
| 4 | **not** **smite** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle | stranger *not said here* |  |  | stranger's stature |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **see** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | stranger | a great many Giants |  |  |  | before *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer giant=Stimulus |
| 6 | **mean** | present | no | the biggest of feet |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent big=Topic |

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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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