Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 14
If it did not smash him all to pieces, at least, I am sure, it must have made the poor little fellow's head ache.
Who acts: woodcutter, I, poor little fellow · What happens: not smash, be, make, ache · To what, where: man, least, woodcutter
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woodcutter, I, poor little fellow), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 smash | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 smash | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 smash | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 smash | advmod |
| 5 | smash | smash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 sure | advcl |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 smash | obj |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 him | det |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 pieces | case |
| 9 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 smash | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 least | punct |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 least | case |
| 12 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 smash | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 smash | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 sure | nsubj |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 sure | cop |
| 16 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 made | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 made | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 made | aux |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 made | aux |
| 21 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 sure | ccomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 fellow | det |
| 23 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 fellow | amod |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 fellow | amod |
| 25 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 ache | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 fellow | case |
| 27 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 ache | compound |
| 28 | ache | ache | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 made | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not smash a condition, not said to happen | past · do-support | woodcutter | man | least | to pieces | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme to piece=Destination | ||
| 2 | is | present | I | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | must · perfect · passive | woodcutter | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary ache=Product | |||||
| 4 | ache | the poor little fellow | nom ache «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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