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description: But he had encountered so many dangers from giants, and one-eyed Cyclops, and monsters of the sea and land, that he could not help dreading some mischief, even in this pleasant and seemingly solitary spot. Who acts: Ulysses. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., p
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 9

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But he had encountered so many dangers from giants, and one-eyed Cyclops, and monsters of the sea and land, that he could not help dreading some mischief, even in this pleasant and seemingly solitary spot.

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**Who acts:** Ulysses · **What happens:** encounter, not help, dread · **To what, where:** many dangers, mischief, pleasant solitary spot

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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 (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:pg976:15:9
# text = But he had encountered so many dangers from giants, and one-eyed Cyclops, and monsters of the sea and land, that he could not help dreading some mischief, even in this pleasant and seemingly solitary spot.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	encountered	encounter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	dangers	danger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	eyed	eyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Cyclops	cyclops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	monsters	monster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
30	dreading	dread	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	xcomp	_	_
31	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	32	det	_	_
32	mischief	mischief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
34	even	even	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
36	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	41	nsubj	_	_
37	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	seemingly	seemingly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	conj	_	_
40	solitary	solitary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **encounter** | past · perfect | Ulysses | many dangers |  |  |  | from giants; eyed Cyclops and monsters of the sea and land *obl* | vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer danger=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **help** | could | Ulysses |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **dread** *not said to happen* | gerund | Ulysses *not said here* | some mischief |  | pleasant solitary spot |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mischief=Stimulus |

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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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