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title: Instead of his ordinary milk diet, did he not eat up two of our comr… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Instead of his ordinary milk diet, did he not eat up two of our comrades for his supper, and a couple more for breakfast, and two at his supper again? Who acts: Polyphemus. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 54

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Instead of his ordinary milk diet, did he not eat up two of our comrades for his supper, and a couple more for breakfast, and two at his supper again?

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**Who acts:** Polyphemus · **What happens:** not eat up · **To what, where:** two

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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 (Polyphemus), 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:pg976:15:54
# text = Instead of his ordinary milk diet, did he not eat up two of our comrades for his supper, and a couple more for breakfast, and two at his supper again?
1	Instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	6	case	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
4	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	diet	diet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	comrades	comrade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	conj	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	again	again	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **eat up** | past · do-support | Polyphemus | two of our comrades for Polyphemus's supper |  |  | again | instead Polyphemus's ordinary milk diet | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=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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