Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 49

But, luckily, though the giants were so huge, and had so many arms, they had each but one heart, and that no bigger nor braver than the heart of an ordinary man.

Who acts: giants · What happens: be, have · To what, where: many arms, each

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 (giants), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 huge	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 luckily	punct
3	luckily	luckily	ADV	_	10 huge	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 huge	punct
5	though	though	SCONJ	_	10 huge	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 giants	det
7	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 huge	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 huge	cop
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 huge	advmod
10	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 had	cc
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 huge	parataxis
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 many	advmod
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 arms	amod
16	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 had	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 huge	parataxis
20	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	19 had	obj
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 heart	cc
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 heart	nummod
23	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 each	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 bigger	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 bigger	cc
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 bigger	mark
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 bigger	det
28	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 had	conj
29	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	30 braver	cc
30	braver	brave	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 bigger	conj
31	than	than	ADP	_	33 heart	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 heart	det
33	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 braver	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 man	case
35	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 man	det
36	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 man	amod
37	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 heart	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 huge	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the giants		huge, luckily property	tree rules
2	have	past		many arms		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient
3	have	past	giants = giant	each		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Patient

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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