Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 40

He is a puzzler, take him how you will."

Who acts: Talus · What happens: be, take · To what, where: puzzler, Talus

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Talus), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 puzzler	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 puzzler	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 puzzler	det
4	puzzler	puzzler	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct
6	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 puzzler	parataxis
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 take	obj
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 will	advmod
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 will	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 take	advcl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 puzzler	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 puzzler	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Talus	a puzzler					tree rules
2	take	infinitive			Talus				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination

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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