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title: "I hope," said another, "it will be, mainly, good substantial joints… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "I hope," said another, "it will be, mainly, good substantial joints, sirloins, spareribs, and hinder quarters, without too many kickshaws. Who acts: I, feast. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 5

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"I hope," said another, "it will be, mainly, good substantial joints, sirloins, spareribs, and hinder quarters, without too many kickshaws.

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**Who acts:** I, feast · **What happens:** hope, say, be · **To what, where:** hinder quarters, another, good substantial joints · **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 (I, feast), 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:pg976:17:5
# text = "I hope," said another, "it will be, mainly, good substantial joints, sirloins, spareribs, and hinder quarters, without too many kickshaws.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hope	hope	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	mainly	mainly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	substantial	substantial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	joints	joint	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	sirloins	sirloin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	spareribs	sparerib	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	hinder	hind	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	amod	_	_
26	quarters	quarter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	without	without	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	too	too	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	kickshaws	kickshaw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hope** *in a quote* | present | I | hinder quarters and many kickshaws |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | another |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | future | feast | good substantial joints and sirloins and spareribs |  |  |  | mainly *property* | 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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