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title: But how innocently those women are babbling together, without guessi… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But how innocently those women are babbling together, without guessing that we overhear them! Who acts: women, we. 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 55

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But how innocently those women are babbling together, without guessing that we overhear them!

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**Who acts:** women, we · **What happens:** babble, guess, overhear · **To what, where:** forms

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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 (women, we), 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:pg976:16:55
# text = But how innocently those women are babbling together, without guessing that we overhear them!
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	innocently	innocently	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	babbling	babble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	together	together	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	guessing	guess	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	overhear	overhear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **babble** | present · progressive | that women |  |  |  |  | innocently, together *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **guess** | gerund | that women *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **overhear** | present | we | forms *= form* |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=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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