--- title: "There has been a great deal of pains foolishly wasted on these flow… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: "There has been a great deal of pains foolishly wasted on these flowers," observed one of the company; and I tell you what he said, that you may keep in mind what gormandizers they were. " Who acts: flowers, I, bird, you. 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" **Who acts:** flowers, I, bird, you, gormandizers · **What happens:** waste, observe, tell, say, keep, gormandizer · **To what, where:** great deal, flowers, one, you, mind · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flowers, I, bird, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg976:16:12 # text = "There has been a great deal of pains foolishly wasted on these flowers," observed one of the company; and I tell you what he said, that you may keep in mind what gormandizers they were. " 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 4 expl _ _ 3 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 aux:pass _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 deal deal NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 pains pain AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 10 foolishly foolishly ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 wasted waste VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 14 det _ _ 14 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 17 observed observe VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 18 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 obj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 company company NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 iobj _ _ 27 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 29 obj _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 that that SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 37 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 40 obj _ _ 38 gormandizers gormandizer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ _ 39 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 40 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ _ 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **waste** *in a quote* | participle · passive | | a great deal | | this flowers | | foolishly *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **observe** | past | this flowers *not said here* | one of the company | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent one=Topic | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | I | | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | bird | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | | 5 | **keep** | may | you | | | mind | | | tree rules | | 6 | **gormandizer** | | gormandizers *= gormandizer* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **be** | past | gormandizers | | | | | | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/16/11/) - next →: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/16/13/) - ↑ back to [Circe's Palace., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/16/)