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title: Yet Eurylochus fancied that one of them had sea-green hair, and that… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Yet Eurylochus fancied that one of them had sea-green hair, and that the close-fitting bodice of a second looked like the bark of a tree, and that both the others had something odd in their aspect, although he could not quite determine what it was, in the little while that he had to examine them. Wh
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 66

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Yet Eurylochus fancied that one of them had sea-green hair, and that the close-fitting bodice of a second looked like the bark of a tree, and that both the others had something odd in their aspect, although he could not quite determine what it was, in the little while that he had to examine them.

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**Who acts:** Eurylochus, one, others · **What happens:** fancy, have, look, not determine, examine · **To what, where:** green hair, fitting bodice, something, aspect, gestures

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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, one, others), 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:pg976:16:66
# text = Yet Eurylochus fancied that one of them had sea-green hair, and that the close-fitting bodice of a second looked like the bark of a tree, and that both the others had something odd in their aspect, although he could not quite determine what it was, in the little while that he had to examine them.
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Eurylochus	Eurylochus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fancied	fancy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	fitting	fitting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	bodice	bodice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	second	second	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
25	like	like	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
33	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
34	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc:preconj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
37	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
38	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	37	obj	_	_
39	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	aspect	aspect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
44	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
45	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
46	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
47	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	49	advmod	_	_
48	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
49	determine	determine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	parataxis	_	_
50	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	49	obj	_	_
51	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
52	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
54	in	in	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	conj	_	_
57	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	60	mark	_	_
58	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	60	mark	_	_
59	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	nsubj	_	_
60	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	advcl	_	_
61	to	to	PART	TO	_	62	mark	_	_
62	examine	examine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	60	xcomp	_	_
63	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	62	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fancy** | past | Eurylochus |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **have** | past | one of gestures | green hair |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient |
| 3 | **look** | participle · passive |  | the fitting bodice of a second |  |  |  | like the bark of a tree | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |
| 4 | **have** | past | the others | something |  | gestures's aspect |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient |
| 5 | **not** **determine** | could | Eurylochus |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
| 6 | **have** | past | Eurylochus |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **examine** | to-infinitive | Eurylochus *not said here* | gestures *= gesture* |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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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