--- title: And Circe, as the beautiful enchantress was called (who had deluded… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And Circe, as the beautiful enchantress was called (who had deluded so many persons that she did not doubt of being able to delude Ulysses, not imagining how wise he was), again addressed him: Who acts: Circe, Ulysses. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Circe, Ulysses), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg976:18:23 # text = And Circe, as the beautiful enchantress was called (who had deluded so many persons that she did not doubt of being able to delude Ulysses, not imagining how wise he was), again addressed him: 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 2 Circe Circe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 4 as as SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 enchantress enchantress NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 deluded delude VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 persons person NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 17 that that SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 18 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 doubt doubt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 cop _ _ 24 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 ccomp _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 delude delude VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 Ulysses Ulysses PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 imagining imagine VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 31 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 32 advmod _ _ 32 wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 ccomp _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 34 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 again again ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 addressed address VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 39 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | past · passive | | Circe | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 2 | **delude** | past · perfect · passive | | many persons | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **doubt** | past · do-support | Circe | | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | gerund | Circe *not said here* | | | | | able *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **delude** | to-infinitive | Circe *not said here* | Ulysses | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ulysses=Patient | | 6 | **not** **imagine** | gerund | Circe *not said here* | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 7 | **is** | past | Ulysses | | | | | wise *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **address** | past | | | Ulysses | | again | | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/18/22/) - next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/18/24/) - ↑ back to [Circe's Palace., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/18/)