Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 74
What an idle and childish taste that is!
Who acts: idle taste · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., 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 (idle taste), 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 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 6 taste | det |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 taste | det |
| 3 | idle | idle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 taste | amod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 childish | cc |
| 5 | childish | childish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 idle | conj |
| 6 | taste | taste | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 is | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 taste | acl:relcl |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 taste | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | what idle taste | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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