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title: Watching his opportunity, as the mad Giant made a rush at him, Hercu… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Watching his opportunity, as the mad Giant made a rush at him, Hercules caught him round the middle with both hands, lifted him high into the air, and held him aloft overhead. Who acts: Hercules. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 2, with its dependency tree 
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 93

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Watching his opportunity, as the mad Giant made a rush at him, Hercules caught him round the middle with both hands, lifted him high into the air, and held him aloft overhead.

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**Who acts:** Hercules · **What happens:** watch, make, catch, lift, hold · **To what, where:** opportunity, rush, way, Hercules, air

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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:pg976:8:93
# text = Watching his opportunity, as the mad Giant made a rush at him, Hercules caught him round the middle with both hands, lifted him high into the air, and held him aloft overhead.
1	Watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	_
9	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	rush	rush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	round	round	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	aloft	aloft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	xcomp	_	_
36	overhead	overhead	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | gerund |  | Hercules's opportunity |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | past |  | a rush |  |  |  | at Hercules | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rush=Product |
| 3 | **catch** | past | Hercules | way |  |  |  | round the middle; with both hands | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **lift** | past | Hercules *not said here* | Hercules |  | the air |  | high *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into air=Destination |
| 5 | **hold** | past |  | Hercules |  |  |  | aloft *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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