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title: Even if he had met another Giant, Antaeus would have fancied the wor… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Even if he had met another Giant, Antaeus would have fancied the world not big enough for two such vast personages, and, instead of being friends with him, would have fought him till one of the two was killed. Who acts: Antaeus. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., 
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 46

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Even if he had met another Giant, Antaeus would have fancied the world not big enough for two such vast personages, and, instead of being friends with him, would have fought him till one of the two was killed.

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**Who acts:** Antaeus · **What happens:** meet, fancy, be, fight, kill · **To what, where:** Giant, world, friends, one

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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 (Antaeus), 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:pg976:7:46
# text = Even if he had met another Giant, Antaeus would have fancied the world not big enough for two such vast personages, and, instead of being friends with him, would have fought him till one of the two was killed.
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux	_	_
12	fancied	fancy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
17	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
20	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	personages	personage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	29	case	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	fixed	_	_
28	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	cop	_	_
29	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
33	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	aux	_	_
35	fought	fight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
36	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
38	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nmod	_	_
42	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux:pass	_	_
43	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past · perfect | Antaeus | another Giant |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **fancy** | would · perfect | Antaeus | the world |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer world=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | instead friends; with Antaeus | tree rules |
| 4 | **fight** | would · perfect · passive |  | friends |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **kill** | past · passive |  | one of the two |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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