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title: It brings a blush into my face to reckon up, in my own mind, what mo… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It brings a blush into my face to reckon up, in my own mind, what mountains of meat and pudding, and what gallons of wine, these two and twenty guzzlers and gormandizers ate and drank. Who acts: opinion, own mind, gallons, my. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace.,
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 25

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It brings a blush into my face to reckon up, in my own mind, what mountains of meat and pudding, and what gallons of wine, these two and twenty guzzlers and gormandizers ate and drank.

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**Who acts:** opinion, own mind, gallons, my · **What happens:** bring, reckon up, mountain, eat, drink, mind · **To what, where:** blush, face

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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 (opinion, own mind, gallons, my), 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:pg976:17:25
# text = It brings a blush into my face to reckon up, in my own mind, what mountains of meat and pudding, and what gallons of wine, these two and twenty guzzlers and gormandizers ate and drank.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	blush	blush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	reckon	reckon	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	nsubj	_	_
18	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	pudding	pudding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
25	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	26	det	_	_
26	gallons	gallon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	34	det	_	_
31	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	conj	_	_
34	guzzlers	guzzler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	gormandizers	gormandizer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	_
37	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | present | opinion | a blush |  | my face |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent blush=Theme into face=Destination |
| 2 | **reckon up** | to-infinitive | opinion *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **mountain** |  | my own mind and mountains |  |  |  |  | of meat and pudding | tree rules |
| 4 | **eat** | past | what gallons of wine |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **drink** | past | what gallons of wine *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **mind** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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