Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 34

It was as if Ariadne were giving him all her might and courage; and much as he already had, and little as she had to give, it made his own seem twice as much.

Who acts: last, Ariadne, Minotaur · What happens: be, give, courage, have, make, seem · To what, where: much, Minotaur, little

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last, Ariadne, Minotaur), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 Ariadne	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Ariadne	cop
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 Ariadne	case
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 Ariadne	mark
5	Ariadne	Ariadne	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 giving	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 giving	aux
7	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 made	advcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 giving	iobj
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 courage	det:predet
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 courage	nsubj
11	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 courage	aux
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 courage	cc
13	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 giving	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 much	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 much	cc
16	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 giving	obj
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 had	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 had	nsubj
19	already	already	ADV	_	20 had	advmod
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 much	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 little	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 little	cc
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 had	obj
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 had	mark
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 had	nsubj
26	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 little	advcl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 give	mark
28	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 had	xcomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 giving	punct
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 made	nsubj
31	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 seem	nmod:poss
33	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 seem	amod
34	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 made	ccomp
35	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	37 much	advmod
36	as	as	ADV	_	37 much	advmod
37	much	much	ADV	_	34 seem	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	past	last			as Ariadne	tree rules
2	give	past · progressive	Ariadne	much	Minotaur		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient much=Theme
3	courage	might	Ariadne				tree rules
4	have	past	Minotaur	little			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Patient
5	have	past	Ariadne				tree rules
6	give	to-infinitive	Ariadne not said here				vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
7	make	past	last				tree rules
8	seem	present	last not said here				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme

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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