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title: Having now no weapons but his fists, he doubled them up (each bigger… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Having now no weapons but his fists, he doubled them up (each bigger than a hogshead), smote one against the other, and danced up and down with absolute frenzy, flourishing his immense arms about, as if he meant not merely to kill Hercules, but to smash the whole world to pieces. Who acts: Hercules.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 82

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Having now no weapons but his fists, he doubled them up (each bigger than a hogshead), smote one against the other, and danced up and down with absolute frenzy, flourishing his immense arms about, as if he meant not merely to kill Hercules, but to smash the whole world to pieces.

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**Who acts:** Hercules · **What happens:** have, double up, smote, dance, flourish, not mean · **To what, where:** weapons, one, immense arms, Hercules, whole world, pieces

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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 (Hercules), 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:pg976:8:82
# text = Having now no weapons but his fists, he doubled them up (each bigger than a hogshead), smote one against the other, and danced up and down with absolute frenzy, flourishing his immense arms about, as if he meant not merely to kill Hercules, but to smash the whole world to pieces.
1	Having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	weapons	weapon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	fists	fist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	doubled	double	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	conj	_	_
16	than	than	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	hogshead	hogshead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	smote	smote	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	obj	_	_
23	against	against	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	danced	dance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
29	up	up	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	down	down	ADV	RB	_	29	conj	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	absolute	absolute	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	frenzy	frenzy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	flourishing	flourish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
38	immense	immense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	_
40	about	about	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
43	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
44	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	parataxis	_	_
46	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	45	advmod	_	_
47	merely	merely	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
49	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	advcl	_	_
50	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
52	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
53	to	to	PART	TO	_	54	mark	_	_
54	smash	smash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	conj	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
56	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obj	_	_
58	to	to	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund | Hercules *not said here* | no weapons but Hercules's fists |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weapon=Patient |
| 2 | **double up** | past | Hercules | weapons *= weapon* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 3 | **smote** | infinitive | Hercules *not said here* | one |  |  |  | against the other | tree rules |
| 4 | **dance** | past | Hercules *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with absolute frenzy | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **flourish** | gerund | Hercules *not said here* | Hercules's immense arms |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **mean** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Hercules |  |  |  |  | merely *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **kill** | to-infinitive | Hercules *not said here* | Hercules |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hercules=Theme |
| 8 | **smash** | to-infinitive | Hercules *not said here* | the whole world |  | pieces |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent world=Theme to piece=Destination |

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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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