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title: "Begone to your sty!" cried the enchantress, giving them some smart… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Begone to your sty!" cried the enchantress, giving them some smart strokes with her wand; and then she turned to the serving men--"Drive out these swine, and throw down some acorns for them to eat." Who acts: enchantress, behavior, hogs. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circ
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 49

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"Begone to your sty!" cried the enchantress, giving them some smart strokes with her wand; and then she turned to the serving men--"Drive out these swine, and throw down some acorns for them to eat."

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**Who acts:** enchantress, behavior, hogs · **What happens:** begone, cry, give, turn, drive out, throw down · **To what, where:** smart strokes, hogs, swine, acorns · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (enchantress, behavior, hogs), 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:pg976:17:49
# text = "Begone to your sty!" cried the enchantress, giving them some smart strokes with her wand; and then she turned to the serving men--"Drive out these swine, and throw down some acorns for them to eat."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Begone	begone	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	sty	sty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
8	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	enchantress	enchantress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
15	smart	smart	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	strokes	stroke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	wand	wand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	serving	serving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	Drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
32	out	out	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	_
33	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	34	det	_	_
34	swine	swine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	throw	throw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
38	down	down	ADP	RP	_	37	compound:prt	_	_
39	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	40	det	_	_
40	acorns	acorn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
41	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
42	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	37	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begone** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to your sty | tree rules |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the enchantress |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **give** | gerund | the enchantress *not said here* | some smart strokes | hogs *= hog* |  |  | with behavior's wand | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient stroke=Theme |
| 4 | **turn** | past | behavior |  |  |  | then | to the serving men *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to man=Result |
| 5 | **drive out** *in a quote* | infinitive | behavior *not said here* | this swine |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme swine=Trajectory |
| 6 | **throw down** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | some acorns |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent acorn=Theme |
| 7 | **eat** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | hogs *= hog* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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