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title: It happened to Ulysses, just as before, that, when he had gone a few… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It happened to Ulysses, just as before, that, when he had gone a few steps from the edge of the cliff, the purple bird came fluttering towards him, crying, "Peep, peep, pe--weep!" and using all the art it could to persuade him to go no farther. Who acts: It, that, purple bird, bird. A sentence of «T
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 76

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It happened to Ulysses, just as before, that, when he had gone a few steps from the edge of the cliff, the purple bird came fluttering towards him, crying, "Peep, peep, pe--weep!" and using all the art it could to persuade him to go no farther.

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**Who acts:** It, that, purple bird, bird, Eurylochus · **What happens:** happen, go, come, flutter, cry, use · **To what, where:** Ulysses, few steps, edge, Peep, art, Eurylochus

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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 (It, that, purple bird, bird), 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:pg976:17:76
# text = It happened to Ulysses, just as before, that, when he had gone a few steps from the edge of the cliff, the purple bird came fluttering towards him, crying, "Peep, peep, pe--weep!" and using all the art it could to persuade him to go no farther.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	as	as	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	before	before	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	cliff	cliff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
30	fluttering	flutter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	xcomp	_	_
31	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	Peep	peep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	peep	peep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	pe	pe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	weep	weep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	43	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	using	use	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	conj	_	_
48	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	50	det:predet	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
51	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
52	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
53	to	to	PART	TO	_	54	mark	_	_
54	persuade	persuade	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	acl:relcl	_	_
55	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	obj	_	_
56	to	to	PART	TO	_	57	mark	_	_
57	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	54	xcomp	_	_
58	no	no	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	_
59	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	57	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | It |  | Ulysses |  |  | before *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past · perfect | that | a few steps |  | the edge of the cliff |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location step=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | the purple bird | a few steps *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **flutter** | gerund | the purple bird *not said here* | Peep and peep and pe |  |  |  | towards Eurylochus | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | the purple bird *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **use** | gerund | the purple bird *not said here* | all art |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent art=Patient |
| 7 | **persuade** | could | bird | Eurylochus |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Patient clause=Result |
| 8 | **go** | to-infinitive | Eurylochus *not said here* |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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