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title: Besides, if they had been like the hundred-armed Briareus, the brave… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Besides, if they had been like the hundred-armed Briareus, the brave Argonauts would have given them their hands full of fight. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 50

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Besides, if they had been like the hundred-armed Briareus, the brave Argonauts would have given them their hands full of fight.

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**What happens:** give · **To what, where:** giants

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg976:27:50
# text = Besides, if they had been like the hundred-armed Briareus, the brave Argonauts would have given them their hands full of fight.
1	Besides	besides	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	aux:pass	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Briareus	Briareus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Argonauts	argonaut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux	_	_
19	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
23	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | would · past · perfect · passive |  | giants *= giant* |  |  |  | like the armed Briareus; full *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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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