Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 103

It was too late for the Giant's Mother Earth to help him now; and I should not wonder if his ponderous bones were lying on the same spot to this very day, and were mistaken for those of an uncommonly large elephant.

Who acts: strength, I, ponderous bones · What happens: be, help, not wonder, lie · To what, where: way, same spot

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strength, I, ponderous bones), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 late	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 late	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 late	advmod
4	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	9 Mother	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Giant	det
7	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Mother	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Giant	case
9	Mother	Mother	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 late	obl
10	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Mother	flat
11	to	to	PART	_	12 help	mark
12	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 late	advcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 help	obj
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 help	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 wonder	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 wonder	cc
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 wonder	nsubj
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 wonder	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 wonder	advmod
20	wonder	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 late	parataxis
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 lying	mark
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 bones	nmod:poss
23	ponderous	ponderous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 bones	amod
24	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 lying	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 lying	aux
26	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 wonder	ccomp
27	on	on	ADP	_	30 spot	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 spot	det
29	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 spot	amod
30	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lying	obl
31	to	to	ADP	_	34 day	case
32	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 day	det
33	very	very	ADV	_	34 day	advmod
34	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lying	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 mistaken	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 mistaken	cc
37	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 mistaken	cop
38	mistaken	mistaken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 wonder	conj
39	for	for	ADP	_	40 those	case
40	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	38 mistaken	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	45 elephant	case
42	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 elephant	det
43	uncommonly	uncommonly	ADV	_	44 large	advmod
44	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 elephant	amod
45	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 those	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 late	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	strength				for the Giant's Mother; late property	tree rules
2	help	to-infinitive	strength not said here	way		now		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
3	not wonder speech: ask	should	I					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	lie a condition, not said to happen	past · progressive	way's ponderous bones		the same spot	day		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on spot=Location
5	is	past	I not said here				for those; mistaken 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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