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title: I'll engage it will be fit to set before two and twenty kings." — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I'll engage it will be fit to set before two and twenty kings." Who acts: I, it. 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 4

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I'll engage it will be fit to set before two and twenty kings."

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**Who acts:** I, it · **What happens:** engage, be, set

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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 (I, it), 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:pg976:17:4
# text = I'll engage it will be fit to set before two and twenty kings."
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	engage	engage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	fit	fit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	before	before	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	conj	_	_
14	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **engage** | future | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | future | it |  |  |  |  | fit *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **set** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | before two kings |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before king=Destination |

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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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