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title: "No, no," answered his comrades, snuffing the air, in which the scen… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "No, no," answered his comrades, snuffing the air, in which the scent from the palace kitchen was now very perceptible. " Who acts: comrades, scent. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 27

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"No, no," answered his comrades, snuffing the air, in which the scent from the palace kitchen was now very perceptible. "

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**Who acts:** comrades, scent · **What happens:** answer, snuff, be · **To what, where:** air

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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 (comrades, scent), 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:pg976:16:27
# text = "No, no," answered his comrades, snuffing the air, in which the scent from the palace kitchen was now very perceptible. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	comrades	comrade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	snuffing	snuff	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	scent	scent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
25	very	very	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	perceptible	perceptible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Eurylochus's comrades |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **snuff** | gerund | Eurylochus's comrades *not said here* | the air |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | the scent from the palace kitchen |  |  |  | now | perceptible *property* | tree rules |

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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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