--- title: To speak critically, indeed, the latter rather carried the thing to… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: To speak critically, indeed, the latter rather carried the thing to excess, and seemed to make it a point to wallow in the miriest part of the sty, and otherwise to outdo the original swine in their own natural vocation. Who acts: latter. 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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 (latter), 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:pg976:18:81 # text = To speak critically, indeed, the latter rather carried the thing to excess, and seemed to make it a point to wallow in the miriest part of the sty, and otherwise to outdo the original swine in their own natural vocation. 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 3 critically critically ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 indeed indeed ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 latter latter ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 nsubj _ _ 9 rather rather ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 excess excess VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 point point NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 wallow wallow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 miriest miry ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 28 amod _ _ 28 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 sty sty NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 otherwise otherwise ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 outdo outdo VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 original original ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 swine swine NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 41 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 42 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 43 natural natural ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 vocation vocation NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | the latter *not said here* | | | | | critically, indeed *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **carry** | past | the latter | the thing | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | | 3 | **excess** | to-infinitive | the latter *not said here* | the thing *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **seem** | past | the latter *not said here* | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 5 | **make** | to-infinitive | the latter *not said here* | thing | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary point=Product | | 6 | **wallow** | to-infinitive | the latter *not said here* | | | the miriest part of the sty | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **outdo** | to-infinitive | the latter *not said here* | the original swine | | | | in birth's own natural vocation; otherwise *property* | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot swine=Theme in vocation=Attribute | 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 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/18/80/) - next →: [sentence 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/18/82/) - ↑ back to [Circe's Palace., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/18/)