Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 16
There is not a Giant on earth for whom I would take the trouble to get up."
Who acts: Giant, I · What happens: not be, take, get up · To what, where: earth, trouble
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 (Giant, I), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 is | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Giant | det |
| 5 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 is | nsubj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 earth | case |
| 7 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | obl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 whom | case |
| 9 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 take | obl |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 take | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 take | aux |
| 12 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 earth | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 trouble | det |
| 14 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 take | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 get | mark |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 take | advcl |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 get | compound:prt |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not be | present | a Giant | earth; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on earth=Location | ||||
| 2 | take | would | I | the trouble | for earth | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent trouble=Theme for whom=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | get up | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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