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title: Circe and the four nymphs must have been very diligently at work sin… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Circe and the four nymphs must have been very diligently at work since the arrival of the mariners; for a great many yards of tapestry had now been wrought, in addition to what I before described. Who acts: Circe, I, mariners. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace.,
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 28

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Circe and the four nymphs must have been very diligently at work since the arrival of the mariners; for a great many yards of tapestry had now been wrought, in addition to what I before described.

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**Who acts:** Circe, I, mariners · **What happens:** be, work, describe, arrive · **To what, where:** work, great many yards, addition

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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 (Circe, I, mariners), 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:pg976:1331`): 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:pg976:18:28
# text = Circe and the four nymphs must have been very diligently at work since the arrival of the mariners; for a great many yards of tapestry had now been wrought, in addition to what I before described.
1	Circe	Circe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	nymphs	nymph	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	cop	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	diligently	diligently	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	since	since	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	arrival	arrival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	mariners	mariner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
20	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	yards	yard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	tapestry	tapestry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
28	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
29	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	wrought	work	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	addition	addition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	33	nmod	_	_
36	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	before	before	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	described	describe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl:relcl	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | must · perfect | Circe and the four nymphs |  |  | work | since the arrival of the mariners | diligently *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** | past · perfect · passive |  | a great many yards of tapestry |  | addition | now |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material |
| 3 | **describe** | past | I |  |  |  |  | before *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **arrive** |  | the mariners |  |  |  |  |  | nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=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:** 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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