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title: Lastly, there they were, sitting on the desolate shore of this very… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Lastly, there they were, sitting on the desolate shore of this very island, hungry and downcast, and looking ruefully at the bare bones of the stag which they devoured yesterday. Who acts: voyagers, stag. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 2, with its depe
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 83

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Lastly, there they were, sitting on the desolate shore of this very island, hungry and downcast, and looking ruefully at the bare bones of the stag which they devoured yesterday.

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**Who acts:** voyagers, stag · **What happens:** sit, desolate, look, devour · **To what, where:** desolate shore

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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 (voyagers, stag), 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:pg976:16:83
# text = Lastly, there they were, sitting on the desolate shore of this very island, hungry and downcast, and looking ruefully at the bare bones of the stag which they devoured yesterday.
1	Lastly	lastly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	desolate	desolate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	compound	_	_
11	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	downcast	downcast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
23	ruefully	ruefully	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	stag	stag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	devoured	devour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
34	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past · progressive | voyagers *= voyager* |  |  | the desolate shore of this island; there |  | lastly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shore=Location |
| 2 | **desolate** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | gerund | voyagers *= voyager* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the bare bones of the stag; ruefully *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at bone=Theme |
| 4 | **devour** | past | the stag |  |  |  | yesterday |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: 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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