Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 41

You are to know, then, that whenever this redoubtable Giant touched the ground, either with his hand, his foot, or any other part of his body, he grew stronger than ever he had been before.

Who acts: You, redoubtable Giant, Antaeus · What happens: be, touch, grow · To what, where: ground

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 (You, redoubtable Giant, 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 know	cop
3	to	to	PART	_	4 know	mark
4	know	know	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 know	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 whenever	punct
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 whenever	nsubj
9	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	4 know	advmod
10	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 Giant	nsubj
11	redoubtable	redoubtable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Giant	amod
12	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 touched	nsubj
13	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 whenever	advcl:relcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ground	det
15	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 touched	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hand	punct
17	either	either	CCONJ	_	20 hand	cc:preconj
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 hand	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 hand	nmod:poss
20	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 whenever	appos
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 foot	punct
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 foot	nmod:poss
23	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hand	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 part	punct
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 part	cc
26	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	28 part	det
27	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 part	amod
28	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hand	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 body	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 body	nmod:poss
31	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 part	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 grew	punct
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 grew	nsubj
34	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 know	parataxis
35	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	34 grew	xcomp
36	than	than	ADP	_	37 ever	case
37	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	35 stronger	obl
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 before	nsubj
39	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 before	aux
40	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	41 before	cop
41	before	before	ADV	_	34 grew	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	You		then	know, whenever property	tree rules
2	touch	past	redoubtable Giant	the ground			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Co-Theme
3	grow	past	Antaeus			strong property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past · perfect	Antaeus			before 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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