Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 30

But, being the son of Mother Earth, as they likewise were, the Giant gave them his brotherly kindness, and loved them with as big a love as it was possible to feel for creatures so very small.

Who acts: feet, Giant, it · What happens: be, likewise, love, feel · To what, where: son, feet

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 (feet, Giant, it), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	17 gave	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 son	punct
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 son	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 son	det
5	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gave	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Mother	case
7	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 son	nmod
8	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Mother	flat
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 likewise	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 likewise	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 likewise	nsubj
12	likewise	likewise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 son	acl:relcl
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 gave	cop
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 gave	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Giant	det
16	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 gave	nsubj
17	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 gave	iobj
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 kindness	nmod:poss
20	brotherly	brotherly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 kindness	amod
21	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gave	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 loved	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 loved	cc
24	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 gave	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 loved	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	30 love	case
27	as	as	ADV	_	28 big	advmod
28	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 love	amod
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 love	det
30	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 loved	obl
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 possible	mark
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 possible	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 possible	cop
34	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 loved	advcl
35	to	to	PART	_	36 feel	mark
36	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 possible	csubj
37	for	for	ADP	_	38 creatures	case
38	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 feel	obl
39	so	so	ADV	_	41 small	advmod
40	very	very	ADV	_	41 small	advmod
41	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 feel	xcomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	gerund		the son		of Mother	tree rules
2	likewise	present	feet = foot	the son not said here			tree rules
3	is	past	the Giant		feet = foot	give property	tree rules
4	love	past	the Giant not said here	feet = foot		with a big love	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
5	is	past	it			possible property	tree rules
6	feel	to-infinitive				for creatures; small property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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