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title: If such be your pleasure, you shall first take some refreshment, and… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: If such be your pleasure, you shall first take some refreshment, and then join them in the elegant apartment which they now occupy. Who acts: you, companions. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 25

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If such be your pleasure, you shall first take some refreshment, and then join them in the elegant apartment which they now occupy.

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**Who acts:** you, companions · **What happens:** be, take, join, occupy · **To what, where:** such pleasure, refreshment, companions, elegant apartment

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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 (you, companions), 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:pg976:18:25
# text = If such be your pleasure, you shall first take some refreshment, and then join them in the elegant apartment which they now occupy.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	advmod	_	_
10	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	refreshment	refreshment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
16	join	join	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	elegant	elegant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	apartment	apartment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obj	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
25	occupy	occupy	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive | you *not said here* | your such pleasure |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | shall | you | some refreshment |  |  |  | first *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent refreshment=Theme |
| 3 | **join** | infinitive | you *not said here* | companions *= companion* |  | the elegant apartment | then |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 4 | **occupy** | present | companions *= companion* | the elegant apartment |  |  | now |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus which=Experiencer |

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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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