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title: Well, my stars! was there ever such a gentle, sweet, pretty, and ami… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Well, my stars! was there ever such a gentle, sweet, pretty, and amiable creature as this bull, and ever such a nice playmate for a little girl? Who acts: stars. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 27

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Well, my stars! was there ever such a gentle, sweet, pretty, and amiable creature as this bull, and ever such a nice playmate for a little girl?

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**Who acts:** stars · **What happens:** be

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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 (stars), 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:pg976:10:27
# text = Well, my stars! was there ever such a gentle, sweet, pretty, and amiable creature as this bull, and ever such a nice playmate for a little girl?
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
8	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	advmod	_	_
9	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	19	det:predet	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
11	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	amiable	amiable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	29	advmod	_	_
26	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	29	det:predet	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	playmate	playmate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | my stars |  |  |  | ever | there *property* | tree rules |

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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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