Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 46

Even if he had met another Giant, Antaeus would have fancied the world not big enough for two such vast personages, and, instead of being friends with him, would have fought him till one of the two was killed.

Who acts: Antaeus · What happens: meet, fancy, be, fight, kill · To what, where: Giant, world, friends, one

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 (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	Even	even	ADV	_	5 met	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 met	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 met	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 met	aux
5	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	7 Giant	det
7	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 met	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fancied	punct
9	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 fancied	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 fancied	aux
11	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 fancied	aux
12	fancied	fancy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 met	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 world	det
14	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fancied	obj
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 big	advmod
16	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 world	amod
17	enough	enough	ADV	_	16 big	advmod
18	for	for	ADP	_	22 personages	case
19	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 personages	nummod
20	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 personages	amod
21	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 personages	amod
22	personages	personage	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 big	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 fought	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 fought	cc
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 friends	punct
26	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	29 friends	case
27	of	of	ADP	_	26 instead	fixed
28	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 friends	cop
29	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 fought	nsubj:pass
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 friends	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 friends	punct
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 fought	aux
34	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 fought	aux
35	fought	fight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 met	conj
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 fought	obj
37	till	till	SCONJ	_	43 killed	mark
38	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 killed	nsubj:pass
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 two	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 two	det
41	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 one	nmod
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 killed	aux:pass
43	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 fought	advcl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	meet	past · perfect	Antaeus	another Giant		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Co-Agent
2	fancy	would · perfect	Antaeus	the world		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer world=Stimulus
3	is	gerund			instead friends; with Antaeus	tree rules
4	fight	would · perfect · passive		friends		tree rules
5	kill	past · passive		one of the two		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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