Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 50

Besides, if they had been like the hundred-armed Briareus, the brave Argonauts would have given them their hands full of fight.

What happens: give · To what, where: giants

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: 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	Besides	besides	INTJ	_	19 given	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Besides	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 given	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 given	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 given	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 given	aux:pass
7	like	like	ADP	_	12 Briareus	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Briareus	det
9	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 armed	nummod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 hundred	punct
11	armed	armed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Briareus	amod
12	Briareus	Briareus	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 given	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 given	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Argonauts	det
15	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Argonauts	amod
16	Argonauts	argonaut	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 given	nsubj:pass
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 given	aux
18	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 given	aux
19	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 given	obj
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 hands	nmod:poss
22	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 given	obj
23	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 given	xcomp
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 fight	case
25	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 full	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 given	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	would · past · perfect · passive		giants = giant				like the armed Briareus; full property	tree rules

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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