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title: The lions, and wolves, and tigers, who will come running to meet you… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The lions, and wolves, and tigers, who will come running to meet you, in front of the palace, were formerly fierce and cruel men, resembling in their disposition the wild beasts whose forms they now rightfully wear." Who acts: tigers, lions, wild beasts. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 96

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The lions, and wolves, and tigers, who will come running to meet you, in front of the palace, were formerly fierce and cruel men, resembling in their disposition the wild beasts whose forms they now rightfully wear."

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**Who acts:** tigers, lions, wild beasts · **What happens:** come, run, meet, be, resemble, wear · **To what, where:** front, you, disposition

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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 (tigers, lions, wild beasts), 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:pg976:17:96
# text = The lions, and wolves, and tigers, who will come running to meet you, in front of the palace, were formerly fierce and cruel men, resembling in their disposition the wild beasts whose forms they now rightfully wear."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	tigers	tiger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	xcomp	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	formerly	formerly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	resembling	resemble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	43	csubj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	disposition	disposition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nsubj	_	_
38	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nsubj	_	_
40	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
41	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	43	advmod	_	_
42	rightfully	rightfully	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | future | tigers |  |  | front of the palace |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **run** | gerund | tigers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **meet** | to-infinitive | tigers *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | the lions and wolves and tigers |  |  |  |  | fierce, formerly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **resemble** | gerund |  |  |  | lions's disposition |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **wear** | infinitive | the wild beasts |  |  |  | now | rightfully *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: 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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