Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 91
But he might just as well save himself the trouble, poor, fat little man that he is.
Who acts: cook · What happens: be · To what, where: fat little man
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 (cook), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 trouble | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 trouble | nsubj |
| 3 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 trouble | aux |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 trouble | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 10 trouble | advmod |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 as | fixed |
| 7 | save | save | ADP | _ | 8 himself | case |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 as | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 trouble | det |
| 10 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 poor | punct |
| 12 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 trouble | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 man | punct |
| 14 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 poor | appos |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 is | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 is | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 man | acl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 trouble | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | cook | fat little man not said here | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot man=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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