Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 15

And O, my stars! if the fathers and mothers were so small, what must the children and babies have been?

Who acts: stars · What happens: be

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 (stars), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	14 small	cc
2	O	o	INTJ	_	14 small	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stars	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 stars	nmod:poss
5	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 small	nsubj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 stars	punct
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 small	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fathers	det
9	fathers	father	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 small	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 mothers	cc
11	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fathers	conj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 small	cop
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 small	advmod
14	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 what	punct
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 small	parataxis
17	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 what	acl:relcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 children	det
19	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 been	nsubj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 babies	cc
21	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 children	conj
22	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 been	aux
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 must	acl:relcl
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 small	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	my stars					small 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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