Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 53

Why, if Mother Earth had not been very kind to ourselves, we might all have been Giants too."

Who acts: Mother Earth · What happens: have, not be, be · To what, where: ourselves, Giants

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 (Mother Earth), 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Giants	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 Giants	mark
4	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Earth	compound
5	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Giants	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Earth	acl:relcl
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 kind	advmod
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 kind	cop
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 kind	advmod
10	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 had	xcomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 ourselves	case
12	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 kind	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Giants	punct
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 Giants	nsubj
15	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 Giants	aux
16	all	all	ADV	_	19 Giants	advmod
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 Giants	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 Giants	cop
19	Giants	Giant	PROPN	Number=Plur	1 Why	nsubj
20	too	too	ADV	_	19 Giants	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	Mother Earth not said here				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not is	participle	Mother Earth not said here		ourselves	kind property	tree rules
3	is a	might · perfect	Mother Earth	Giants		all 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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