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title: Poor Clover has been a good deal troubled with her second teeth, whi… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Poor Clover has been a good deal troubled with her second teeth, which have made her meagre in aspect and rather fractious in temper; nor, even when she smiles, is the matter much mended, since it discloses a gap just within her lips, almost as wide as the barn door. Who acts: Clover, Poor good deal
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 68

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Poor Clover has been a good deal troubled with her second teeth, which have made her meagre in aspect and rather fractious in temper; nor, even when she smiles, is the matter much mended, since it discloses a gap just within her lips, almost as wide as the barn door.

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**Who acts:** Clover, Poor good deal, matter, meagre · **What happens:** be, trouble, make, smile, mend, disclose · **To what, where:** Poor good deal, second teeth, aspect, matter, gap

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Wayside. Introductory.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Clover, Poor good deal, matter, meagre), 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:pg976:2:68
# text = Poor Clover has been a good deal troubled with her second teeth, which have made her meagre in aspect and rather fractious in temper; nor, even when she smiles, is the matter much mended, since it discloses a gap just within her lips, almost as wide as the barn door.
1	Poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
2	Clover	Clover	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	troubled	trouble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	amod	_	_
12	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	meagre	meagre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	aspect	aspect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	fractious	fractious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	temper	temper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
27	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	32	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	even	even	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
30	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	32	advmod	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	smiles	smile	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
37	much	much	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	mended	mend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	discloses	disclose	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	gap	gap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
45	just	just	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
46	within	within	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
50	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
51	as	as	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
52	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	advmod	_	_
53	as	as	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
55	barn	barn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	compound	_	_
56	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present · perfect | Clover | a Poor good deal |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **trouble** | past | a Poor good deal |  |  |  |  | with deal's second teeth | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **make** | present · perfect · passive |  | deal's second teeth |  | aspect |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary meagre=Product |
| 4 | **smile** | present | Clover |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | present |  | the matter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **mend** | past | the matter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **disclose** | present | meagre | a gap |  |  |  | within deal's lips | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot gap=Topic |

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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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