Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 66

What a funny thing it is to be little!

Who acts: thing · What happens: be

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 (thing), 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	4 thing	det:predet
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 thing	det
3	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thing	amod
4	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 little	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 little	cop
7	to	to	PART	_	9 little	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 little	cop
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thing	acl:relcl
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	thing					little property	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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