--- title: Before the two days were spent, they grew very weary of this kind of… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Before the two days were spent, they grew very weary of this kind of life; for the followers of King Ulysses, as you will find it important to remember, were terrible gormandizers, and pretty sure to grumble if they missed their regulars meals, and their irregular ones besides. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voyagers, you, life), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg976:15:11 # text = Before the two days were spent, they grew very weary of this kind of life; for the followers of King Ulysses, as you will find it important to remember, were terrible gormandizers, and pretty sure to grumble if they missed their regulars meals, and their irregular ones besides. 1 Before before SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 5 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 spent spend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 very very ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 weary weary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 14 det _ _ 14 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 followers follower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod:desc _ _ 23 Ulysses Ulysses PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 as as SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 important important ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 xcomp _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 remember remember VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 35 terrible terrible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 gormandizers gormandizer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 pretty pretty ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 42 grumble grumble VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 xcomp _ _ 43 if if SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 44 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 45 missed miss VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 ccomp _ _ 46 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod:poss _ _ 47 regulars regular NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 compound _ _ 48 meals meal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 51 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 53 nmod:poss _ _ 52 irregular irregular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 53 amod _ _ 53 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 54 compound _ _ 54 besides beside NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 55 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spend** | past · passive | | the two days | | | | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset | | 2 | **grow** | past | voyagers *= voyager* | | | | | for the followers of Ulysses King; weary *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **find** | future | you | life | | | | important *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 4 | **remember** | to-infinitive | life *not said here* | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | past | | terrible gormandizers | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **grumble** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | voyagers *= voyager* *not said here* | ones besides | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **miss** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | voyagers *= voyager* | regulars meals | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meal=Stimulus | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/15/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/15/12/) - ↑ back to [Circe's Palace., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/15/)