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title: Before Antaeus could get out of the way, Hercules let drive again, a… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Before Antaeus could get out of the way, Hercules let drive again, and gave him another knock-down blow, which sent him heels over head, but served only to increase his already enormous and insufferable strength. Who acts: Antaeus, Hercules, down blow. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel H
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 79

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Before Antaeus could get out of the way, Hercules let drive again, and gave him another knock-down blow, which sent him heels over head, but served only to increase his already enormous and insufferable strength.

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**Who acts:** Antaeus, Hercules, down blow · **What happens:** get out, let, drive, give, send, serve · **To what, where:** way, down blow, Hercules, heels, head, enormous strength

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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, Hercules, down blow), 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:pg976:8:79
# text = Before Antaeus could get out of the way, Hercules let drive again, and gave him another knock-down blow, which sent him heels over head, but served only to increase his already enormous and insufferable strength.
1	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
13	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	iobj	_	_
18	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
19	knock	knock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	down	down	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	heels	heel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	over	over	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	served	serve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
33	only	only	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	increase	increase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
37	already	already	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	enormous	enormous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	insufferable	insufferable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	conj	_	_
41	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get out** | could | Antaeus | the way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** | past | Hercules |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **drive** | infinitive | Hercules *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **give** | past | Hercules *not said here* | another down blow | Hercules |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient blow=Theme |
| 5 | **send** | past | another down blow | heels | Hercules | head |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination heel=Theme |
| 6 | **serve** | past | Hercules *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **increase** | to-infinitive | Hercules *not said here* | Hercules's enormous strength |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer strength=Patient |

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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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