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title: But it will require only the slightest exercise of magic to make the… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But it will require only the slightest exercise of magic to make the exterior conform to the hoggish disposition. Who acts: form, exterior. 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 39

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But it will require only the slightest exercise of magic to make the exterior conform to the hoggish disposition.

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**Who acts:** form, exterior · **What happens:** require, make, conform, exercise · **To what, where:** slightest exercise, exterior, hoggish disposition, magic

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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 (form, exterior), 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:pg976:17:39
# text = But it will require only the slightest exercise of magic to make the exterior conform to the hoggish disposition.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	require	require	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	slightest	slight	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	exercise	exercise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	exterior	exterior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	conform	conform	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	hoggish	hoggish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	disposition	disposition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **require** | future | form | the slightest exercise of magic |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme exercise=Precondition |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | form *not said here* | the exterior |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **conform** | infinitive | the exterior *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the hoggish disposition *goal* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent to disposition=Goal |
| 4 | **exercise** |  |  | magic |  |  |  |  | nom exercise «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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