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title: With so agreeable a prospect before him, Ulysses fancied that he cou… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: With so agreeable a prospect before him, Ulysses fancied that he could not do better than go straight to the palace gate, and tell the master of it that there was a crew of poor shipwrecked mariners, not far off, who had eaten nothing for a day or two, save a few clams and oysters, and would therefo
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 20

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With so agreeable a prospect before him, Ulysses fancied that he could not do better than go straight to the palace gate, and tell the master of it that there was a crew of poor shipwrecked mariners, not far off, who had eaten nothing for a day or two, save a few clams and oysters, and would therefore be thankful for a little food.

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**Who acts:** Ulysses, crew, poor shipwrecked mariners · **What happens:** fancy, not do, go, tell, be, shipwreck · **To what, where:** palace gate, master, few clams · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Ulysses, crew, poor shipwrecked mariners), 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:pg976:15:20
# text = With so agreeable a prospect before him, Ulysses fancied that he could not do better than go straight to the palace gate, and tell the master of it that there was a crew of poor shipwrecked mariners, not far off, who had eaten nothing for a day or two, save a few clams and oysters, and would therefore be thankful for a little food.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	agreeable	agreeable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	prospect	prospect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
6	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	fancied	fancy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
16	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
17	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
19	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nmod	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	33	expl	_	_
33	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	crew	crew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	shipwrecked	shipwreck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	amod	_	_
39	mariners	mariner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
41	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	47	advmod	_	_
42	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	43	advmod	_	_
43	off	off	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	47	nsubj	_	_
46	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	39	parataxis	_	_
48	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	47	conj	_	_
49	for	for	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	_
52	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	51	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
55	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
56	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
57	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	clams	clam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	obj	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
60	oysters	oyster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	66	punct	_	_
62	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	66	cc	_	_
63	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	66	aux	_	_
64	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	66	advmod	_	_
65	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	66	cop	_	_
66	thankful	thankful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
67	for	for	ADP	IN	_	70	case	_	_
68	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	70	det	_	_
69	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	70	amod	_	_
70	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	66	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fancy** | past | Ulysses |  |  |  |  | with a agreeable prospect before fire | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **do** | could | Ulysses |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive | Ulysses *not said here* |  |  | the palace gate |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to gate=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Ulysses *not said here* | the master of master |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent master=Recipient |
| 5 | **be** | past | a crew of poor shipwrecked mariners |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **shipwreck** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **not** **eat** | past · perfect | poor shipwrecked mariners |  |  |  |  | off *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **save** | infinitive | Ulysses *not said here* | a few clams and oysters |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clam=Theme |
| 9 | **is** | would | Ulysses *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a little food; thankful, therefore *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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