Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 49

Any other mortal man, except the very one whom Antaeus had now encountered, would have been half frightened to death by the Giant's ferocious aspect and terrible voice.

Who acts: Antaeus, other mortal man · What happens: encounter, be, frighten · To what, where: half

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 (Antaeus, other mortal man), 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	Any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 man	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
3	mortal	mortal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 half	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 one	punct
6	except	except	ADP	_	9 one	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 one	det
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 one	advmod
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 man	conj
10	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 encountered	obl
11	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 encountered	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 encountered	aux
13	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 encountered	advmod
14	encountered	encounter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 one	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 man	punct
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 half	aux
17	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 half	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 half	cop
19	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	root	root
20	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 half	acl
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 death	case
22	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 frightened	obl
23	by	by	ADP	_	28 aspect	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 aspect	det
25	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 aspect	amod
26	's	's	PART	_	25 Giant	case
27	ferocious	ferocious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 aspect	amod
28	aspect	aspect	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 frightened	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 voice	cc
30	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 voice	amod
31	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 aspect	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 half	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	encounter	past · perfect	Antaeus		now		vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	would · perfect	any other mortal man	half			tree rules
3	frighten	participle		half not said here		to death; by the Giant ferocious aspect and terrible voice	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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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