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title: When Ulysses reached the lawn, in front of the palace, the lions and… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When Ulysses reached the lawn, in front of the palace, the lions and other savage animals came bounding to meet him, and would have fawned upon him and licked his feet. Who acts: Ulysses, lions. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 4, with its dependency tre
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 11

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When Ulysses reached the lawn, in front of the palace, the lions and other savage animals came bounding to meet him, and would have fawned upon him and licked his feet.

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**Who acts:** Ulysses, lions · **What happens:** reach, come, bound, meet, fawn, lick · **To what, where:** lawn, front, Ulysses, feet

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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 (Ulysses, lions), 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:pg976:18:11
# text = When Ulysses reached the lawn, in front of the palace, the lions and other savage animals came bounding to meet him, and would have fawned upon him and licked his feet.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lawn	lawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	savage	savage	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
19	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	bounding	bound	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	xcomp	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux	_	_
28	fawned	fawn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	parataxis	_	_
29	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	licked	lick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | Ulysses | the lawn |  | front of the palace |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent lawn=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | the lions and other savage animals |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bound** | gerund | the lions and other savage animals *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **meet** | to-infinitive | the lions and other savage animals *not said here* | Ulysses |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **fawn** | would · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | upon Ulysses | vn calve-28.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **lick** | past |  | Ulysses's feet |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent foot=Source |

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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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