Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 17

Hercules, I suppose, had not grown to his full strength, else he might have set her afloat as easily as a little boy launches his boat upon a puddle.

Who acts: I, Hercules, little boy · What happens: suppose, not grow, set, launch · To what, where: Jason, boat, puddle

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., 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 (I, Hercules, little boy), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 grown	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 suppose	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 suppose	nsubj
4	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Hercules	parataxis
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Hercules	punct
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 grown	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 grown	advmod
8	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 strength	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 strength	nmod:poss
11	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 strength	amod
12	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grown	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 set	punct
14	else	else	ADV	_	18 set	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 set	nsubj:pass
16	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 set	aux
17	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 set	aux
18	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 grown	conj
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 afloat	nmod:poss
20	afloat	afloat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 set	xcomp
21	as	as	ADV	_	22 easily	advmod
22	easily	easily	ADV	_	18 set	advmod
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 launches	mark
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 boy	det
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 boy	amod
26	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 launches	nsubj
27	launches	launch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 set	advcl
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 boat	nmod:poss
29	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 launches	obj
30	upon	upon	ADP	_	32 puddle	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 puddle	det
32	puddle	puddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 launches	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 grown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	suppose	present	I				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	not grow	past · perfect	Hercules			to Jason's full strength	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	set	might · perfect · passive		Jason		afloat, easily, else property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
4	launch	present	a little boy	Jason's boat	a puddle		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent boat=Theme upon puddle=Destination

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.

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