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title: They looked at Ulysses, as if they expected him to clamber up the cl… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They looked at Ulysses, as if they expected him to clamber up the cliff again, and come back with another fat deer upon his shoulders. Who acts: appetites, Ulysses. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 46

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They looked at Ulysses, as if they expected him to clamber up the cliff again, and come back with another fat deer upon his shoulders.

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**Who acts:** appetites, Ulysses · **What happens:** look, expect, clamber up, come back · **To what, where:** Ulysses, cliff

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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 (appetites, 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:pg976:15:46
# text = They looked at Ulysses, as if they expected him to clamber up the cliff again, and come back with another fat deer upon his shoulders.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	expected	expect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	clamber	clamber	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	cliff	cliff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
20	back	back	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
23	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | appetites *= appetite* |  |  |  |  | at Ulysses | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at ulysses=Theme |
| 2 | **expect** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | appetites *= appetite* | Ulysses |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **clamber up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Ulysses *not said here* | the cliff |  |  | again |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location cliff=Theme |
| 4 | **come back** | infinitive | Ulysses *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with another fat deer upon Ulysses's shoulders | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: 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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