Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 27

If he had been as ill-natured to them as he was to everybody else, he might have beaten down their biggest city at one kick, and hardly have known that he did it.

Who acts: everybody, Antaeus · What happens: nature, be, beat down, know, do · To what, where: Antaeus, fingers, biggest city, one kick, ear · 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 (everybody, Antaeus), 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	_	8 natured	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 natured	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 natured	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 natured	aux:pass
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 natured	mark
6	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 natured	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 ill	punct
8	natured	nature	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 beaten	advcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 natured	obl
11	as	as	ADP	_	15 everybody	case
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 everybody	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 everybody	cop
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 everybody	case
15	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 natured	obl:agent
16	else	else	ADV	_	15 everybody	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 natured	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 beaten	nsubj
19	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 beaten	aux
20	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 beaten	aux
21	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
22	down	down	ADP	_	21 beaten	compound:prt
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 city	nmod:poss
24	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 city	amod
25	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 beaten	obj
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 kick	case
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 kick	nummod
28	kick	kick	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 city	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 known	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 known	cc
31	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	33 known	advmod
32	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 known	aux
33	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 beaten	conj
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 did	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 did	nsubj
36	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 known	ccomp
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 did	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 beaten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	nature	past · perfect · passive	everybody	Antaeus	fingers = finger			tree rules
2	is	past	Antaeus				as everybody; else property	tree rules
3	beat down	might · perfect	Antaeus	fingers's biggest city		one kick		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location city=Theme
4	know	present · perfect	Antaeus not said here				hardly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	do	past	Antaeus	ear				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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