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title: So ridiculous were these images of themselves, indeed, that they did… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So ridiculous were these images of themselves, indeed, that they did really laugh aloud, and could hardly be grave again as soon as they wished. Who acts: ridiculous images, images. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 18

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So ridiculous were these images of themselves, indeed, that they did really laugh aloud, and could hardly be grave again as soon as they wished.

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**Who acts:** ridiculous images, images · **What happens:** be, laugh, wish · **To what, where:** ridiculous images

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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 (ridiculous images, images), 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:pg976:16:18
# text = So ridiculous were these images of themselves, indeed, that they did really laugh aloud, and could hardly be grave again as soon as they wished.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	ridiculous	ridiculous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	images	image	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	really	really	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
22	grave	grave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	parataxis	_	_
23	again	again	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	as	as	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | this ridiculous images |  |  |  | of images *= image* | tree rules |
| 2 | **laugh** | past · do-support | this ridiculous images |  |  |  |  | aloud, indeed *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | could |  |  |  |  | again | grave, hardly, soon *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **wish** | past | images *= image* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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