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title: This was proved by the hamadryad, who, being exceedingly fond of mis… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This was proved by the hamadryad, who, being exceedingly fond of mischief, threw another handful of acorns before the twenty-two newly-restored people; whereupon down they wallowed in a moment, and gobbled them up in a very shameful way. Who acts: hamadryad, people. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» 
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 100

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This was proved by the hamadryad, who, being exceedingly fond of mischief, threw another handful of acorns before the twenty-two newly-restored people; whereupon down they wallowed in a moment, and gobbled them up in a very shameful way.

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**Who acts:** hamadryad, people · **What happens:** prove, be, throw, restore, wallow, gobble up · **To what, where:** This, handful, people, shameful way

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hamadryad, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg976:1394`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg976:18:100
# text = This was proved by the hamadryad, who, being exceedingly fond of mischief, threw another handful of acorns before the twenty-two newly-restored people; whereupon down they wallowed in a moment, and gobbled them up in a very shameful way.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	proved	prove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hamadryad	hamadryad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:agent	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	cop	_	_
11	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	advcl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	mischief	mischief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
17	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	handful	handful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	acorns	acorn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	before	before	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	compound	_	_
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	_
25	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
26	newly	newly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	_
28	restored	restore	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	amod	_	_
29	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	whereupon	whereupon	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	down	down	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	wallowed	wallow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	gobbled	gobble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
41	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	_
42	up	up	ADP	RP	_	40	compound:prt	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
45	very	very	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
46	shameful	shameful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prove** | past · passive | the hamadryad | This |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | gerund | the hamadryad *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of mischief; exceedingly, fond *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **throw** | past | the hamadryad | another handful of acorns |  |  | before two restored people |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent handful=Theme before people=Destination |
| 4 | **restore** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | newly *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **wallow** | past | people |  |  |  | moment | down *property* | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **gobble up** | past | people *not said here* | people |  | a shameful way |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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