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title: She probably perished in the sea; or, to whatever shore the white bu… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She probably perished in the sea; or, to whatever shore the white bull may have carried her, it is now so many years ago, that there would be neither love nor acquaintance between us, should we meet again. Who acts: sister, shore, we. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Drag
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 10

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She probably perished in the sea; or, to whatever shore the white bull may have carried her, it is now so many years ago, that there would be neither love nor acquaintance between us, should we meet again.

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**Who acts:** sister, shore, we · **What happens:** perish, carry, be, meet · **To what, where:** sea, white bull, neither love

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., 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 (sister, shore, we), 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:pg976:11:10
# text = She probably perished in the sea; or, to whatever shore the white bull may have carried her, it is now so many years ago, that there would be neither love nor acquaintance between us, should we meet again.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	perished	perish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	whatever	whatever	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	12	det	_	_
12	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux	_	_
18	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
23	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	32	expl	_	_
31	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	cop	_	_
33	neither	neither	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
35	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	36	cc	_	_
36	acquaintance	acquaintance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
37	between	between	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
41	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	conj	_	_
43	again	again	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perish** | past | sister |  |  | the sea |  | probably *property* | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **carry** | may · perfect · passive |  | the white bull |  |  |  | to whatever shore | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary she=Value |
| 3 | **is** | present | shore |  |  |  | now; year | ago *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | infinitive |  | neither love nor acquaintance between us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **meet** | should | we |  |  |  | again |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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