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title: Dear me! what pendulous ears they had! what little red eyes, half bu… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Dear me! what pendulous ears they had! what little red eyes, half buried in fat! and what long snouts, instead of Grecian noses! Who acts: pendulous ears, little red eyes. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 46

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Dear me! what pendulous ears they had! what little red eyes, half buried in fat! and what long snouts, instead of Grecian noses!

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**Who acts:** pendulous ears, little red eyes · **What happens:** have, bury, snout · **To what, where:** little red eyes, fat

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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 (pendulous ears, little red eyes), 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:pg976:17:46
# text = Dear me! what pendulous ears they had! what little red eyes, half buried in fat! and what long snouts, instead of Grecian noses!
1	Dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
5	pendulous	pendulous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	16	advmod	_	_
16	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	23	nsubj	_	_
22	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	snouts	snout	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	28	case	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	Grecian	grecian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	noses	nose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | pendulous ears |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bury** | participle |  | little red eyes and long snouts and Grecian noses *not said here* |  | fat |  | half *property* | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in fat=Destination |
| 3 | **snout** |  | little red eyes and long snouts and Grecian noses |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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