Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 99

Hercules had guessed this secret; and it may be well for us all to remember it, in case we should ever have to fight a battle with a fellow like Antaeus.

Who acts: Hercules, secret, us, we · What happens: guess, be, remember, have, fight · To what, where: secret, battle

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 (Hercules, secret, us, we), 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	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 guessed	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 guessed	aux
3	guessed	guess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 secret	det
5	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 guessed	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 remember	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 well	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 well	nsubj
9	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 well	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 well	cop
11	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 remember	advmod
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 remember	mark
13	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 remember	nsubj
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 us	nmod:unmarked
15	to	to	PART	_	16 remember	mark
16	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 guessed	parataxis
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 remember	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 have	punct
19	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	24 have	mark
20	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 in	fixed
21	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 have	nsubj
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 have	aux
23	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	24 have	advmod
24	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 remember	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 fight	mark
26	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 have	xcomp
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 battle	det
28	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fight	obj
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 fellow	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 fellow	det
31	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fight	obl
32	like	like	ADP	_	33 Antaeus	case
33	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 fellow	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 guessed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	guess	past · perfect	Hercules	this secret			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme
2	is	may	secret			well property	tree rules
3	remember	to-infinitive	us	secret			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	have	should	we		ever		tree rules
5	fight	to-infinitive	we not said here	a battle		with a fellow like Antaeus	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Co-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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