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title: By and by, they come to have a wild and homeless aspect; so that you… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: By and by, they come to have a wild and homeless aspect; so that you would much sooner have taken them for a gypsy family than a queen and three princes, and a young nobleman, who had once a palace for a home, and a train of servants to do their bidding. Who acts: people, you, young nobleman. A sent
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 107

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By and by, they come to have a wild and homeless aspect; so that you would much sooner have taken them for a gypsy family than a queen and three princes, and a young nobleman, who had once a palace for a home, and a train of servants to do their bidding.

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**Who acts:** people, you, young nobleman · **What happens:** come, have, take, do, bid · **To what, where:** young nobleman, wild aspect, people, palace, bidding

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., 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 (people, you, young nobleman), 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:pg976:10:107
# text = By and by, they come to have a wild and homeless aspect; so that you would much sooner have taken them for a gypsy family than a queen and three princes, and a young nobleman, who had once a palace for a home, and a train of servants to do their bidding.
1	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	homeless	homeless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	aspect	aspect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
15	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	22	mark	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
19	much	much	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	gypsy	gypsy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	than	than	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj	_	_
41	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	acl:relcl	_	_
42	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	44	advmod	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
45	for	for	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nmod	_	_
54	to	to	PART	TO	_	55	mark	_	_
55	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	acl	_	_
56	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	57	nmod:poss	_	_
57	bidding	bidding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | people | a young nobleman and a train of servants |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | a wild aspect |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aspect=Patient |
| 3 | **take** | would · perfect | you | people |  |  |  | for a gypsy family than a queen and three princes; soon *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent they=Theme for family=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **have** | past | a young nobleman and a train of servants | a palace |  |  |  | for a home | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Patient |
| 5 | **do** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | people's bidding |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bidding=Eventuality |
| 6 | **bid** |  | people |  |  |  |  |  | nom bidding «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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