Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 41

Indeed, it has always seemed to me that the Giant needed the little people more than the Pygmies needed the Giant.

Who acts: it, Giant, Pygmies · What happens: seem, need · To what, where: me, little people, Giant

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 (it, Giant, 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	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	6 seemed	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Indeed	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 seemed	nsubj
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 seemed	aux
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 seemed	advmod
6	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 seemed	obl
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 needed	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Giant	det
11	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 needed	nsubj
12	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 seemed	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 people	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 people	amod
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 needed	obj
16	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 needed	advmod
17	than	than	SCONJ	_	20 needed	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Pygmies	det
19	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 needed	nsubj
20	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 more	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Giant	det
22	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 needed	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	seem	present	it		me	always, indeed property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	need	past	the Giant	the little people			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot people=Theme
3	need	past	the Pygmies	the Giant			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot giant=Theme

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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