Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 40

There was one strange thing about Antaeus, of which I have not yet told you, lest, hearing of so many wonders all in a lump, you might not believe much more than half of them.

Who acts: one strange thing, you, many wonders · What happens: be, not tell, not believe, hear · To what, where: I, you, half · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (one strange thing, you, many wonders), 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 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 thing	nummod
4	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 Antaeus	case
7	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 thing	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 told	punct
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 which	case
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 told	obl
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 told	nsubj:pass
12	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 told	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 told	advmod
14	yet	yet	ADV	_	15 told	advmod
15	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 thing	parataxis
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 told	iobj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hearing	punct
18	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	20 hearing	case
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hearing	punct
20	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 told	parataxis
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 wonders	case
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 many	advmod
23	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 wonders	amod
24	wonders	wonder	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 hearing	nmod
25	all	all	ADV	_	28 lump	advmod
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 lump	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 lump	det
28	lump	lump	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wonders	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 believe	punct
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 believe	nsubj
31	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 believe	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 believe	advmod
33	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 was	advcl
34	much	much	ADV	_	35 more	advmod
35	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	37 half	advmod
36	than	than	ADP	_	35 more	fixed
37	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	33 believe	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 them	case
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 half	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	one strange thing about Antaeus			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not tell speech: assert	present · perfect · passive		I	you		yet	of one strange thing about Antaeus	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient you=Topic
3	not believe	might	you	half of dominions					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer half=Stimulus
4	hear		many wonders in a lump						nom hearing «act intransitive»: of=agent

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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