Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 54

But I doubt whether more than half a dozen of them punctured the skin, which was remarkably tough, as you know the skin of a hero has good need to be.

Who acts: I, dozen, skin, you · What happens: doubt, puncture, be, know, have · To what, where: skin, good need · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, dozen, skin, you), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 doubt	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 doubt	nsubj
3	doubt	doubt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	12 punctured	mark
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	9 dozen	advmod
6	than	than	ADP	_	5 more	fixed
7	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	9 dozen	det:predet
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 dozen	det
9	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 punctured	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 dozen	nmod
12	punctured	puncture	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 doubt	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 skin	det
14	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 punctured	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tough	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 tough	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 tough	cop
18	remarkably	remarkably	ADV	_	19 tough	advmod
19	tough	tough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 skin	acl:relcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 know	punct
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 know	mark
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 know	nsubj
23	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 tough	parataxis
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 skin	det
25	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 has	nsubj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 hero	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 hero	det
28	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 skin	nmod
29	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 know	ccomp
30	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 need	amod
31	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 has	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 be	mark
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 need	acl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 doubt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	doubt	present	I			vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	puncture	past	half dozen of archers	the skin		vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient
3	is	past	the skin		remarkably, tough property	tree rules
4	know	present	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	have	present	the skin of a hero	good need		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Patient

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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