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title: But, being the son of Mother Earth, as they likewise were, the Giant… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But, being the son of Mother Earth, as they likewise were, the Giant gave them his brotherly kindness, and loved them with as big a love as it was possible to feel for creatures so very small. Who acts: feet, Giant, it. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 1, w
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 30

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But, being the son of Mother Earth, as they likewise were, the Giant gave them his brotherly kindness, and loved them with as big a love as it was possible to feel for creatures so very small.

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**Who acts:** feet, Giant, it · **What happens:** be, likewise, love, feel · **To what, where:** son, feet

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feet, Giant, it), 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:pg976:7:30
# text = But, being the son of Mother Earth, as they likewise were, the Giant gave them his brotherly kindness, and loved them with as big a love as it was possible to feel for creatures so very small.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Mother	Mother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	likewise	likewise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	nsubj	_	_
17	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	iobj	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	brotherly	brotherly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	as	as	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
31	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	advcl	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	csubj	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
39	so	so	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
40	very	very	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | gerund |  | the son |  |  |  | of Mother | tree rules |
| 2 | **likewise** | present | feet *= foot* | the son *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | the Giant |  | feet *= foot* |  |  | give *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **love** | past | the Giant *not said here* | feet *= foot* |  |  |  | with a big love | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | possible *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **feel** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for creatures; small *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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