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title: The nymph with the bodice of oaken bark (she was the hamadryad of an… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The nymph with the bodice of oaken bark (she was the hamadryad of an oak) threw a handful of acorns among them; and the two and twenty hogs scrambled and fought for the prize, as if they had tasted not so much as a noggin of sour milk for a twelvemonth. Who acts: latter, nymph, two hogs, comrades. A
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 87

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The nymph with the bodice of oaken bark (she was the hamadryad of an oak) threw a handful of acorns among them; and the two and twenty hogs scrambled and fought for the prize, as if they had tasted not so much as a noggin of sour milk for a twelvemonth.

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**Who acts:** latter, nymph, two hogs, comrades · **What happens:** be, throw, scramble, fight, taste · **To what, where:** hamadryad, handful, much

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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 (latter, nymph, two hogs, comrades), 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:pg976:18:87
# text = The nymph with the bodice of oaken bark (she was the hamadryad of an oak) threw a handful of acorns among them; and the two and twenty hogs scrambled and fought for the prize, as if they had tasted not so much as a noggin of sour milk for a twelvemonth.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nymph	nymph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bodice	bodice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	oaken	oaken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hamadryad	hamadryad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
18	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	handful	handful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	acorns	acorn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	among	among	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
28	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	conj	_	_
31	hogs	hog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	scrambled	scramble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	prize	prize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
40	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
41	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
42	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	tasted	taste	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	32	conj	_	_
44	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	46	advmod	_	_
45	so	so	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
46	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	obj	_	_
47	as	as	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	noggin	noggin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	sour	sour	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	_
53	for	for	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	twelvemonth	twelvemonth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | latter | the hamadryad |  |  |  | of a oak | tree rules |
| 2 | **throw** | past | the nymph with the bodice of oaken bark | a handful of acorns among comrades |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handful=Theme |
| 3 | **scramble** | past | the two hogs |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fight** | past | the two hogs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the prize | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **taste** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | comrades *= comrade* | much |  |  |  | as a noggin of sour milk for a twelvemonth | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent much=Theme as noggin=Value |

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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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