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title: And the prince or nobleman must be a very stingy curmudgeon, to be s… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And the prince or nobleman must be a very stingy curmudgeon, to be sure, if, at least, when his own dinner was over, he would not bid them welcome to the broken victuals from the table. Who acts: prince, own dinner, Ulysses. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., p
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 21

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And the prince or nobleman must be a very stingy curmudgeon, to be sure, if, at least, when his own dinner was over, he would not bid them welcome to the broken victuals from the table.

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**Who acts:** prince, own dinner, Ulysses · **What happens:** be, not bid, welcome · **To what, where:** stingy curmudgeon, nobleman

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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 (prince, own dinner, Ulysses), 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:pg976:15:21
# text = And the prince or nobleman must be a very stingy curmudgeon, to be sure, if, at least, when his own dinner was over, he would not bid them welcome to the broken victuals from the table.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	stingy	stingy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	curmudgeon	curmudgeon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
15	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	27	mark	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	over	over	ADV	RB	_	32	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	bid	bid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
33	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	welcome	welcome	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	broken	broken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	victuals	victual	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
39	from	from	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | must | the prince or nobleman | a stingy curmudgeon |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Ulysses's own dinner |  |  |  |  | over *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **bid** | would | Ulysses | nobleman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **welcome** | infinitive | Ulysses *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the broken victuals from the table | vn admit-64.3-1 «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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