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title: "If I am really awake," continued he, "then, in my opinion, we are o… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "If I am really awake," continued he, "then, in my opinion, we are on the point of meeting with some stranger adventure than any that befell us in the cave of Polyphemus, or among the gigantic man-eating Laestrygons, or in the windy palace of King Aeolus, which stands on a brazen-walled island. Who 
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 24

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"If I am really awake," continued he, "then, in my opinion, we are on the point of meeting with some stranger adventure than any that befell us in the cave of Polyphemus, or among the gigantic man-eating Laestrygons, or in the windy palace of King Aeolus, which stands on a brazen-walled island.

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**Who acts:** Eurylochus, we, stranger adventure, windy palace, my · **What happens:** be, continue, befall, eat, stand, wall · **To what, where:** opinion, point, us, cave, walled island

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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 (Eurylochus, we, stranger adventure, windy palace), 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:pg976:16:24
# text = "If I am really awake," continued he, "then, in my opinion, we are on the point of meeting with some stranger adventure than any that befell us in the cave of Polyphemus, or among the gigantic man-eating Laestrygons, or in the windy palace of King Aeolus, which stands on a brazen-walled island.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	really	really	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
28	stranger	strange	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	amod	_	_
29	adventure	adventure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
30	than	than	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	nmod	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
33	befell	befall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
34	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Polyphemus	Polyphemus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
41	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
42	among	among	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
44	gigantic	gigantic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
45	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	48	amod	_	_
48	Laestrygons	laestrygon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
50	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
51	in	in	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
53	windy	windy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	57	compound	_	_
57	Aeolus	Aeolus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
59	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	60	nsubj	_	_
60	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	54	conj	_	_
61	on	on	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
62	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	66	det	_	_
63	brazen	brazen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	65	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	63	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	walled	wall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	66	amod	_	_
66	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | Eurylochus |  |  |  |  | awake *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **continue** | past | Eurylochus |  |  | my opinion | then | among the gigantic eating Laestrygons | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | we |  |  | the point |  | of meeting; with some stranger adventure than any | tree rules |
| 4 | **befall** *in a quote* | past | some stranger adventure than any | us |  | the cave of Polyphemus |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **eat** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **stand** *in a quote* | present | the windy palace of King Aeolus |  |  | a walled island |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on island=Location |
| 7 | **wall** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **opine** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom opinion «cognition 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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