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title: Such misshapen creatures were very numerous in those days; and nobod… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Such misshapen creatures were very numerous in those days; and nobody ever expected to make a voyage, or take a journey, without running more or less risk of being devoured by them. Who acts: Such misshapen creatures, nobody, creatures. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe'
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 13

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Such misshapen creatures were very numerous in those days; and nobody ever expected to make a voyage, or take a journey, without running more or less risk of being devoured by them.

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**Who acts:** Such misshapen creatures, nobody, creatures · **What happens:** be, expect, make, take, run, devour · **To what, where:** nobody, voyage, journey, more risk

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., 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 (Such misshapen creatures, nobody, creatures), 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:pg976:15:13
# text = Such misshapen creatures were very numerous in those days; and nobody ever expected to make a voyage, or take a journey, without running more or less risk of being devoured by them.
1	Such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	misshapen	misshapen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	14	advmod	_	_
14	expected	expect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
27	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	30	amod	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	conj	_	_
30	risk	risk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
31	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	devoured	devour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl	_	_
34	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Such misshapen creatures |  |  |  | day | numerous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **expect** | participle · passive |  | nobody |  |  | ever |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | nobody *not said here* | a voyage |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset voyage=Product |
| 4 | **take** | infinitive | nobody *not said here* | a journey |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Theme |
| 5 | **run** | gerund | nobody *not said here* | more risk |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme risk=Trajectory |
| 6 | **devour** | gerund · passive | creatures *= creature* | more risk *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: 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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