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title: Any other mortal man, except the very one whom Antaeus had now encou… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Any other mortal man, except the very one whom Antaeus had now encountered, would have been half frightened to death by the Giant's ferocious aspect and terrible voice. Who acts: Antaeus, other mortal man. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 2, with its depend
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 49

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Any other mortal man, except the very one whom Antaeus had now encountered, would have been half frightened to death by the Giant's ferocious aspect and terrible voice.

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**Who acts:** Antaeus, other mortal man · **What happens:** encounter, be, frighten · **To what, where:** half

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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 (Antaeus, other mortal man), 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:pg976:8:49
# text = Any other mortal man, except the very one whom Antaeus had now encountered, would have been half frightened to death by the Giant's ferocious aspect and terrible voice.
1	Any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	mortal	mortal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	except	except	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	conj	_	_
10	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	obl	_	_
11	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	encountered	encounter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux	_	_
18	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	cop	_	_
19	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	0	root	_	_
20	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
25	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	ferocious	ferocious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	aspect	aspect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **encounter** | past · perfect | Antaeus |  |  |  | now |  | vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | would · perfect | any other mortal man | half |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **frighten** | participle |  | half *not said here* |  |  |  | to death; by the Giant ferocious aspect and terrible voice | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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