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title: "My son," said she, fixing her dim eyes most lovingly upon him, "thi… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "My son," said she, fixing her dim eyes most lovingly upon him, "this rest that I speak of will be very long indeed! Who acts: son, Telephassa. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 94

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"My son," said she, fixing her dim eyes most lovingly upon him, "this rest that I speak of will be very long indeed!

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**Who acts:** son, Telephassa · **What happens:** say, fix, speak, be · **To what, where:** dim eyes, rest · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (son, Telephassa), 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:pg976:11:94
# text = "My son," said she, fixing her dim eyes most lovingly upon him, "this rest that I speak of will be very long indeed!
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	fixing	fix	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	ccomp	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	dim	dim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
13	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	14	advmod	_	_
14	lovingly	lovingly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
15	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obj	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
27	very	very	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
29	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | My son |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **fix** | gerund | Telephassa | Telephassa's dim eyes |  |  |  | this rest *obl*; lovingly *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | My son *= son* | this rest |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | future |  |  |  |  |  | indeed, long *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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