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title: But brutes as they certainly were, they yet had enough of human natu… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But brutes as they certainly were, they yet had enough of human nature in them to be shocked at their own hideousness; and still intending to groan, they uttered a viler grunt and squeal than before. Who acts: ears. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 3, wi
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 47

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But brutes as they certainly were, they yet had enough of human nature in them to be shocked at their own hideousness; and still intending to groan, they uttered a viler grunt and squeal than before.

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**Who acts:** ears · **What happens:** brute, be, have, shock, intend, groan · **To what, where:** enough, own hideousness, viler grunt

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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 (ears), 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:pg976:17:47
# text = But brutes as they certainly were, they yet had enough of human nature in them to be shocked at their own hideousness; and still intending to groan, they uttered a viler grunt and squeal than before.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	brutes	brute	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
11	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	shocked	shock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	hideousness	hideousness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	still	still	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	intending	intend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	groan	groan	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	uttered	utter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	viler	vile	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	35	amod	_	_
35	grunt	grunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	squeal	squeal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
38	than	than	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	before	before	ADV	RB	_	32	obl	_	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 | **brute** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | past | ears *= ear* |  |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | ears *= ear* | enough |  |  | yet |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enough=Patient |
| 4 | **shock** | to-infinitive · passive | ears *= ear* *not said here* |  |  | ears's own hideousness |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 5 | **intend** | gerund |  |  |  |  | still |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **groan** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **utter** *speech: other* | past | ears *= ear* | a viler grunt and squeal |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent grunt=Topic |

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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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