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title: If Circe had never done anything worse, I really should not think he… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: If Circe had never done anything worse, I really should not think her so very much to blame." Who acts: Circe, I. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 101

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If Circe had never done anything worse, I really should not think her so very much to blame."

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**Who acts:** Circe, I · **What happens:** not do, not think, blame · **To what, where:** anything, Circe

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Circe, I), 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:pg976:17:101
# text = If Circe had never done anything worse, I really should not think her so very much to blame."
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	Circe	Circe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
6	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obj	_	_
7	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	really	really	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	much	much	ADV	RB	_	13	ccomp	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	blame	blame	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | Circe | anything |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | should | I | Circe |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot she=Theme |
| 3 | **blame** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1 «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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