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title: The enchantress was far too cunning to let Ulysses see the mischief… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The enchantress was far too cunning to let Ulysses see the mischief which her magic arts had since brought upon the gormandizers. Who acts: enchantress, Ulysses. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 32

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The enchantress was far too cunning to let Ulysses see the mischief which her magic arts had since brought upon the gormandizers.

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**Who acts:** enchantress, Ulysses · **What happens:** be, let, see, bring · **To what, where:** Ulysses, mischief, magic arts

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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 (enchantress, Ulysses), 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:pg976:18:32
# text = The enchantress was far too cunning to let Ulysses see the mischief which her magic arts had since brought upon the gormandizers.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	enchantress	enchantress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	cunning	cunning	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	csubj	_	_
9	Ulysses	ulysses	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	mischief	mischief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obj	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	arts	art	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	since	since	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	_
20	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	gormandizers	gormandizer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the enchantress |  |  |  |  | cunning, far *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** | to-infinitive |  | Ulysses |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | infinitive | Ulysses *not said here* | the mischief |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mischief=Stimulus |
| 4 | **bring** | past · perfect · passive |  | work's magic arts |  |  |  | upon the gormandizers; since *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination which=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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