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title: Shall I never hear them again? nor taste those nice little savory di… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Shall I never hear them again? nor taste those nice little savory dishes which my dearest wife knew how to serve up?" Who acts: I, those, dearest wife. 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 53

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Shall I never hear them again? nor taste those nice little savory dishes which my dearest wife knew how to serve up?"

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**Who acts:** I, those, dearest wife · **What happens:** not hear, taste, dish, know, serve up · **To what, where:** forms, nice little savory dishes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I, those, dearest wife), 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:pg976:16:53
# text = Shall I never hear them again? nor taste those nice little savory dishes which my dearest wife knew how to serve up?"
1	Shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
8	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	9	cc	_	_
9	taste	taste	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
10	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj	_	_
11	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	savory	savory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obj	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	dearest	dear	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
18	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
20	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	ccomp	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **hear** | shall | I | forms *= form* |  |  | again |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 2 | **taste** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **dish** |  | those |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **know** | past | my dearest wife | nice little savory dishes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **serve up** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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