Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 18

Now these funny Pygmies, as I told you before, had a Giant for their neighbor and brother, who was bigger, if possible, than they were little.

Who acts: I, funny Pygmies, brother, Pygmies · What happens: tell, have, be · To what, where: funny Pygmies, you, Giant · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, funny Pygmies, brother, Pygmies), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 had	advmod
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 Pygmies	det
3	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Pygmies	amod
4	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 had	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 told	mark
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 told	nsubj
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Pygmies	acl:relcl
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 told	iobj
10	before	before	ADV	_	8 told	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Pygmies	punct
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 Giant	det
14	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 had	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 neighbor	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 neighbor	nmod:poss
17	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Giant	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 brother	cc
19	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 neighbor	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 bigger	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 bigger	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 bigger	cop
23	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 brother	acl:relcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 possible	punct
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 possible	mark
26	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 bigger	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 little	punct
28	than	than	ADP	_	31 little	case
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 little	nsubj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 little	cop
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 possible	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	I	this funny Pygmies not said here	you		before property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	have	past	this funny Pygmies	a Giant		now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Patient
3	is	past	brother				big property	tree rules
4	be a condition, not said to happen		brother not said here					tree rules
5	is	past	Pygmies = pygmy				little 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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