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title: Some day or other, too, his sister Europa might have come quietly to… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Some day or other, too, his sister Europa might have come quietly to the door of his home, and smiled round upon the familiar faces. Who acts: sister. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 109

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Some day or other, too, his sister Europa might have come quietly to the door of his home, and smiled round upon the familiar faces.

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**Who acts:** sister · **What happens:** come, smile · **To what, where:** day

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister), 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:pg976:12:109
# text = Some day or other, too, his sister Europa might have come quietly to the door of his home, and smiled round upon the familiar faces.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	Europa	Europa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
11	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux	_	_
13	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl	_	_
14	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	smiled	smile	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	round	round	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	familiar	familiar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | might · perfect | feeling's sister | some day *not said here* |  |  |  | to the door of feeling's home; quietly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location day=Theme |
| 2 | **smile** | past |  |  |  |  | day | upon the familiar faces; round *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «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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