Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 90
They are hardly worth the trouble of changing them into the human form again.
Who acts: comrades, trouble · What happens: be, change · To what, where: comrades, human form
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (comrades, trouble), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 worth | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 worth | cop |
| 3 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 4 worth | advmod |
| 4 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 trouble | det |
| 6 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 changing | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 changing | mark |
| 8 | changing | change | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 worth | ccomp |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 changing | obj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 form | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 form | det |
| 12 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 form | amod |
| 13 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 changing | obl |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 changing | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 worth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | comrades = comrade | hardly, worth property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | change | gerund | the trouble | comrades = comrade | again | into the human form result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent they=Patient into form=Result |
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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