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title: Meanwhile, Antaeus had scrambled upon his feet again, and pulled his… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile, Antaeus had scrambled upon his feet again, and pulled his pine tree out of the earth; and, all aflame with fury, and more outrageously strong than ever, he ran at Hercules, and brought down another blow. Who acts: Antaeus. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmi
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 76

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Meanwhile, Antaeus had scrambled upon his feet again, and pulled his pine tree out of the earth; and, all aflame with fury, and more outrageously strong than ever, he ran at Hercules, and brought down another blow.

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**Who acts:** Antaeus · **What happens:** scramble, pull, run, bring down · **To what, where:** feet, pine tree, earth, Hercules, blow

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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:pg976:8:76
# text = Meanwhile, Antaeus had scrambled upon his feet again, and pulled his pine tree out of the earth; and, all aflame with fury, and more outrageously strong than ever, he ran at Hercules, and brought down another blow.
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	scrambled	scramble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	advmod	_	_
24	aflame	aflame	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	parataxis	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	fury	fury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	30	advmod	_	_
30	outrageously	outrageously	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
32	than	than	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
37	at	at	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
42	down	down	ADP	RP	_	41	compound:prt	_	_
43	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	44	det	_	_
44	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scramble** | past · perfect | Antaeus |  |  | Antaeus's feet | again | meanwhile *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon foot=Trajectory |
| 2 | **pull** | past |  | Antaeus's pine tree |  | the earth |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent tree=Theme out earth=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **run** | past | Antaeus |  |  | Hercules |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at hercules=Trajectory |
| 4 | **bring down** | past |  | another blow |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent blow=Theme |

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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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