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title: So, beholding the dead stag, they felt of its ribs, in a knowing way… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So, beholding the dead stag, they felt of its ribs, in a knowing way, and lost no time in kindling a fire of driftwood, to cook it. Who acts: tempers. 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 43

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So, beholding the dead stag, they felt of its ribs, in a knowing way, and lost no time in kindling a fire of driftwood, to cook it.

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**Who acts:** tempers · **What happens:** behold, feel, know, lose, kindle, cook · **To what, where:** dead stag, fire, stag, driftwood

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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 (tempers), 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:pg976:15:43
# text = So, beholding the dead stag, they felt of its ribs, in a knowing way, and lost no time in kindling a fire of driftwood, to cook it.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	beholding	behold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	stag	stag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	ribs	rib	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	amod	_	_
17	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	kindling	kindle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	driftwood	driftwood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	cook	cook	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **behold** | gerund | tempers *= temper* *not said here* | the dead stag |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stag=Stimulus |
| 2 | **feel** | past | tempers *= temper* |  |  |  |  | of stag's ribs | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **know** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **lose** | past | tempers *= temper* *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **kindle** | gerund | tempers *= temper* *not said here* | a fire of driftwood |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fire=Patient |
| 6 | **cook** | to-infinitive | tempers *= temper* *not said here* | stag |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 7 | **fire** |  |  | driftwood |  |  |  |  | nom fire «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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