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title: "Wretch," cried Circe, giving him a smart stroke with her wand, "how… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Wretch," cried Circe, giving him a smart stroke with her wand, "how dare you keep your human shape a moment longer! Who acts: Wretch, you. 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 57

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"Wretch," cried Circe, giving him a smart stroke with her wand, "how dare you keep your human shape a moment longer!

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**Who acts:** Wretch, you · **What happens:** cry, give, keep · **To what, where:** smart stroke, Wretch, dare · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Wretch, you), 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:pg976:18:57
# text = "Wretch," cried Circe, giving him a smart stroke with her wand, "how dare you keep your human shape a moment longer!
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Wretch	wretch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Circe	Circe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	smart	smart	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	stroke	stroke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	wand	wand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
19	dare	dare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
22	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Wretch |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** | gerund | Wretch *not said here* | a smart stroke | Wretch |  |  | with wine's wand | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient stroke=Theme |
| 3 | **keep** *in a quote* | present | you | dare |  |  | moment | long *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=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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