Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 52

In fact, if the Giant had been no bigger than the Pygmies (who stood pricking up their ears, and looking and listening to what was going forward), the stranger could not have been less afraid of him.

Who acts: Giant, Pygmies, stranger · What happens: not be, stand, prick up, look, listen, go · To what, where: fact, ears

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, Pygmies, stranger), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 fact	case
2	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 afraid	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 fact	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 bigger	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Giant	det
6	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bigger	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 bigger	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 bigger	cop
9	no	no	ADV	_	10 bigger	advmod
10	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 fact	acl
11	than	than	ADP	_	13 Pygmies	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Pygmies	det
13	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bigger	obl
14	(	(	PUNCT	_	16 stood	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 stood	nsubj
16	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 Pygmies	acl:relcl
17	pricking	prick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 stood	xcomp
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 pricking	compound:prt
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 ears	nmod:poss
20	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 pricking	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 looking	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 looking	cc
23	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 stood	advcl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 listening	cc
25	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 looking	conj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 what	case
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 listening	obl
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 going	aux
29	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 what	acl:relcl
30	forward	forward	ADV	_	29 going	advmod
31	)	)	PUNCT	_	29 going	punct
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 fact	punct
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 stranger	det
34	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 afraid	nsubj:outer
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 afraid	aux
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 afraid	advmod
37	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 afraid	aux
38	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	40 afraid	cop
39	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	40 afraid	advmod
40	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 him	case
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 afraid	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	40 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	the Giant	fact not said here		than the Pygmies; big property	tree rules
2	stand	past	the Pygmies				vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	prick up	gerund	the Pygmies not said here	Pygmies's ears			vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ear=Patient
4	look	gerund	the Pygmies not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	listen	gerund	the Pygmies not said here				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to what=Theme
6	go	past · progressive				forward property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	not is	could · perfect	the stranger		fact	of Antaeus; afraid, less 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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