Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 50

He has a very dull time of it, all by himself; and we ought not to grudge wasting a little of our precious time to amuse him.

Who acts: friend, we · What happens: have, not grudge, waste, amuse · To what, where: little, friend

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, we), 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	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 time	det
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 dull	advmod
5	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 time	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 himself	punct
10	all	all	ADV	_	12 himself	advmod
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 himself	case
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 has	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 grudge	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 grudge	cc
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 grudge	nsubj
16	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 grudge	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 grudge	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 grudge	mark
19	grudge	grudge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 has	parataxis
20	wasting	waste	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 grudge	xcomp
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 little	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 wasting	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 time	case
24	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 time	nmod:poss
25	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 time	amod
26	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wasting	obl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 amuse	mark
28	amuse	amuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 time	acl
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 amuse	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	have	present	friend		time	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not grudge	ought	we			vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	waste	gerund	we not said here	a little	time	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Patient
4	amuse	to-infinitive	we not said here	friend		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer

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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