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title: They are hardly worth the trouble of changing them into the human fo… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They are hardly worth the trouble of changing them into the human form again. Who acts: comrades, trouble. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 90

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They are hardly worth the trouble of changing them into the human form again.

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**Who acts:** comrades, trouble · **What happens:** be, change · **To what, where:** comrades, human form

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (comrades, trouble), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg976:18:90
# text = They are hardly worth the trouble of changing them into the human form again.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	changing	change	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	ccomp	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	again	again	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | comrades *= comrade* |  |  |  |  | hardly, worth *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **change** | gerund | the trouble | comrades *= comrade* |  |  | again | into the human form *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent they=Patient into form=Result |

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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.

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**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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