Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 57

"You are a very discourteous Giant," answered the stranger quietly, "and I shall probably have to teach you a little civility, before we part.

Who acts: You, stranger, others · What happens: be, answer, have, teach · To what, where: little civility, you · 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 (You, stranger, others), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Giant	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 Giant	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 Giant	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 Giant	det
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 discourteous	advmod
6	discourteous	discourteous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Giant	amod
7	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Giant	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Giant	punct
10	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 Giant	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 stranger	det
12	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 answered	obj
13	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	10 answered	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 quietly	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 Giant	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 have	cc
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 have	nsubj
18	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 have	aux
19	probably	probably	ADV	_	20 have	advmod
20	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 Giant	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 teach	mark
22	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 have	xcomp
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 teach	iobj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 civility	det
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 civility	amod
26	civility	civility	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 teach	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 part	punct
28	before	before	ADP	_	30 part	case
29	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 part	nsubj
30	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 teach	parataxis
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 Giant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	You			giant property	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	the stranger			quietly property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have in a quote	shall	others = other			probably property	tree rules
4	teach speech: other in a quote	to-infinitive	others = other not said here	a little civility	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient civility=Topic

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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