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title: "Whither are you going in such a hurry, wise Ulysses?" asked Quicksi… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Whither are you going in such a hurry, wise Ulysses?" asked Quicksilver. " Who acts: you, Quicksilver. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 89

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"Whither are you going in such a hurry, wise Ulysses?" asked Quicksilver. "

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**Who acts:** you, Quicksilver · **What happens:** go, ask · **To what, where:** hurry · **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 (you, Quicksilver), 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:pg976:17:89
# text = "Whither are you going in such a hurry, wise Ulysses?" asked Quicksilver. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Whither	whither	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	ccomp	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	9	det:predet	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hurry	hurry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
15	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	Quicksilver	quicksilver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | you |  |  | such hurry |  | whither *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in hurry=Location |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Quicksilver |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=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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