Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 29

Why, what a foolhardy, self-conceited coxcomb he is!

What happens: be · To what, where: foolhardy conceited coxcomb

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 coxcomb	punct
3	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	10 coxcomb	det:predet
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 coxcomb	det
5	foolhardy	foolhardy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 coxcomb	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 foolhardy	punct
7	self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 conceited	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 self	punct
9	conceited	conceited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 coxcomb	amod
10	coxcomb	coxcomb	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 is	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 coxcomb	cop
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		what foolhardy conceited coxcomb					tree rules

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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