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title: Pleasing himself with this idea, King Ulysses had made a few steps i… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Pleasing himself with this idea, King Ulysses had made a few steps in the direction of the palace, when there was a great twittering and chirping from the branch of a neighboring tree. Who acts: few steps. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 1, with its dep
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 22

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Pleasing himself with this idea, King Ulysses had made a few steps in the direction of the palace, when there was a great twittering and chirping from the branch of a neighboring tree.

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**Who acts:** few steps · **What happens:** please, make, be, chirp, neighbor · **To what, where:** Ulysses, King, great twittering, branch

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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 (few steps), 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:pg976:15:22
# text = Pleasing himself with this idea, King Ulysses had made a few steps in the direction of the palace, when there was a great twittering and chirping from the branch of a neighboring tree.
1	Pleasing	please	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
2	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	1	obj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
22	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	23	expl	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	twittering	twittering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	chirping	chirp	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	conj	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	neighboring	neighbor	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	35	amod	_	_
35	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **please** | gerund |  | Ulysses |  |  |  | with this idea | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer |
| 2 | **make** | past · perfect · passive |  | King |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **is a** | past | a few steps in the direction of the palace | a great twittering |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **chirp** | gerund | a few steps in the direction of the palace *not said here* |  |  | the branch of a neighboring tree |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **neighbor** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

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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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