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title: As soon as the Pygmies saw Hercules preparing for a nap, they nodded… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as the Pygmies saw Hercules preparing for a nap, they nodded their little heads at one another, and winked with their little eyes. Who acts: Pygmies, Hercules. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 1

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As soon as the Pygmies saw Hercules preparing for a nap, they nodded their little heads at one another, and winked with their little eyes.

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**Who acts:** Pygmies, Hercules · **What happens:** see, prepare, nod, wink · **To what, where:** Hercules, little heads

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pygmies, 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:pg976:9:1
# text = As soon as the Pygmies saw Hercules preparing for a nap, they nodded their little heads at one another, and winked with their little eyes.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
7	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	preparing	prepare	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	nap	nap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	nodded	nod	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	_
20	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	winked	wink	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the Pygmies | Hercules |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hercules=Stimulus |
| 2 | **prepare** | gerund | Hercules *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a nap | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for nap=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **nod** | past | Pygmies *= pygmy* | Pygmies's little heads |  |  |  | at one; soon *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
| 4 | **wink** | participle | Pygmies *= pygmy* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Pygmies's little eyes | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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