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title: And nothing else would it say, but only, "Peep, peep, pe--weep!" in… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And nothing else would it say, but only, "Peep, peep, pe--weep!" in a melancholy cadence, and over and over and over again. Who acts: nothing. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 31

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And nothing else would it say, but only, "Peep, peep, pe--weep!" in a melancholy cadence, and over and over and over again.

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**Who acts:** nothing · **What happens:** say · **To what, where:** Peep, melancholy cadence · **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 (nothing), 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:pg976:15:31
# text = And nothing else would it say, but only, "Peep, peep, pe--weep!" in a melancholy cadence, and over and over and over again.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	nsubj	_	_
3	else	else	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Peep	peep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	peep	peep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	pe	pe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	weep	weep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	cadence	cadence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	over	over	ADV	RB	_	6	parataxis	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	over	over	ADV	RB	_	27	conj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	over	over	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	again	again	ADV	RB	_	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | would | nothing | Peep and peep and pe |  | a melancholy cadence |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent peep=Theme in cadence=Manner |

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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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