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title: The biggest lion licked the feet of Eurylochus; and every other lion… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The biggest lion licked the feet of Eurylochus; and every other lion, and every wolf and tiger, singled out one of his two and twenty followers, whom the beast fondled as if he loved him better than a beef bone. Who acts: biggest lion, wolf, beast, Eurylochus. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nat
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 35

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The biggest lion licked the feet of Eurylochus; and every other lion, and every wolf and tiger, singled out one of his two and twenty followers, whom the beast fondled as if he loved him better than a beef bone.

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**Who acts:** biggest lion, wolf, beast, Eurylochus · **What happens:** lick, single out, fondle, love · **To what, where:** feet, one, man

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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 (biggest lion, wolf, beast, Eurylochus), 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:pg976:16:35
# text = The biggest lion licked the feet of Eurylochus; and every other lion, and every wolf and tiger, singled out one of his two and twenty followers, whom the beast fondled as if he loved him better than a beef bone.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	licked	lick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Eurylochus	Eurylochus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
21	singled	single	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
26	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	conj	_	_
29	followers	follower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	34	obj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	fondled	fondle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
35	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
36	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	38	xcomp	_	_
41	than	than	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	beef	beef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lick** | past | the biggest lion | the feet of Eurylochus |  |  |  | every other lion *obl* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent foot=Source |
| 2 | **single out** | past | every wolf and tiger | one of Eurylochus's two followers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fondle** | past | the beast |  |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Experiencer |
| 4 | **love** | past | Eurylochus | man |  |  |  | good *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=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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