Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 48

But these great lubberly fellows resemble mountains, not only in bulk, but in their disinclination to move.

Who acts: these, great lubberly fellows · What happens: fellow, resemble, move · To what, where: mountains

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (these, great lubberly fellows), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 resemble	cc
2	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 fellows	nsubj
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fellows	amod
4	lubberly	lubberly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fellows	amod
5	fellows	fellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 resemble	nsubj
6	resemble	resemble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 resemble	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bulk	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 bulk	advmod
10	only	only	ADV	_	12 bulk	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 bulk	case
12	bulk	bulk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mountains	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 disinclination	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 disinclination	cc
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 disinclination	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 disinclination	nmod:poss
17	disinclination	disinclination	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 resemble	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 move	mark
19	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 disinclination	acl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 resemble	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	fellow		these		tree rules
2	resemble	present	great lubberly fellows	mountains and bulk	tree rules
3	move	to-infinitive	great lubberly fellows not said here		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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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