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title: "My pretty bird," said Eurylochus--for he was a wary person, and let… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "My pretty bird," said Eurylochus--for he was a wary person, and let no token of harm escape his notice--"my pretty bird, who sent you hither? Who acts: pretty bird, bird, token. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 85

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"My pretty bird," said Eurylochus--for he was a wary person, and let no token of harm escape his notice--"my pretty bird, who sent you hither?

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**Who acts:** pretty bird, bird, token · **What happens:** say, be, let, escape, send, notice · **To what, where:** pretty bird, notice, you · **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 (pretty bird, bird, token), 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:pg976:15:85
# text = "My pretty bird," said Eurylochus--for he was a wary person, and let no token of harm escape his notice--"my pretty bird, who sent you hither?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Eurylochus	Eurylochus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	wary	wary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	token	token	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	escape	escape	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	notice	notice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
33	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	iobj	_	_
35	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | My pretty bird |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | past | bird |  |  |  |  | for a wary person | tree rules |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive |  | my pretty bird |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **escape** | present | no token of harm | bird's notice |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme notice=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **send** *in a quote* | past | my pretty bird |  | you |  |  | hither *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 6 | **notice** |  | bird |  |  |  |  |  | nom notice «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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