Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 51
He is not half so bright as we are, to be sure; and, for that reason, he needs us to look after his comfort and happiness.
Who acts: friend, we, us · What happens: be, need, look, comfort · To what, where: us
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, us), 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 | 6 bright | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bright | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 half | advmod |
| 4 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 6 bright | nsubj |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 bright | advmod |
| 6 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 are | mark |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 are | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bright | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sure | punct |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 sure | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 sure | cop |
| 13 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bright | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 needs | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 needs | cc |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 and | punct |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 reason | case |
| 18 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 reason | det |
| 19 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 needs | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 reason | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 needs | nsubj |
| 22 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bright | conj |
| 23 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 needs | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 look | mark |
| 25 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 needs | xcomp |
| 26 | after | after | ADP | _ | 28 comfort | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 comfort | nmod:poss |
| 28 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 look | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 happiness | cc |
| 30 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 comfort | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bright | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | friend | bright property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | present | we | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | friend not said here | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | need | present | friend | us | for that reason | tree rules | |||
| 5 | look not said to happen | to-infinitive | us not said here | after friend's comfort and happiness | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | comfort | friend | nom comfort «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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