--- title: But once more Hercules warded off the stroke with his club, and the… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: But once more Hercules warded off the stroke with his club, and the Giant's pine tree was shattered into a thousand splinters, most of which flew among the Pygmies, and did them more mischief than I like to think about. Who acts: more Hercules, most, I. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (more Hercules, most, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg976:8:78 # text = But once more Hercules warded off the stroke with his club, and the Giant's pine tree was shattered into a thousand splinters, most of which flew among the Pygmies, and did them more mischief than I like to think about. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 3 advmod _ _ 3 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 amod _ _ 4 Hercules Hercules PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 warded ward VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 off off ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 stroke stroke NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 club club NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 15 Giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 pine pine NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 shattered shatter VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ _ 21 into into ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 splinters splinter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 29 nsubj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 29 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ _ 30 among among ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 Pygmies pygmy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 36 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 38 amod _ _ 38 mischief mischief NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 39 than than SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 40 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 like like VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 advcl _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 xcomp _ _ 44 about about ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ward off** | past | more Hercules | the stroke | | | | with Hercules's club | tree rules | | 2 | **shatter** | past · passive | | the Giant pine tree | | | | into thousand splinters *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient into splinter=Result | | 3 | **fly** | past | most | | | the Pygmies | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among pygmy=Location | | 4 | **do** | past | most *not said here* | Pygmies *= pygmy* | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **like** | present | I | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **think about** *speech: other* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | about *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/8/77/) - next →: [sentence 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/8/79/) - ↑ back to [The Pygmies., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/8/)