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title: So Circe waved her wand again, and repeated a few magic words, at th… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So Circe waved her wand again, and repeated a few magic words, at the sound of which the two and twenty hogs pricked up their pendulous ears. Who acts: Circe. 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 94

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So Circe waved her wand again, and repeated a few magic words, at the sound of which the two and twenty hogs pricked up their pendulous ears.

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**Who acts:** Circe · **What happens:** wave, repeat, prick up · **To what, where:** wand, few magic words, sound, two hogs

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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), 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:pg976:18:94
# text = So Circe waved her wand again, and repeated a few magic words, at the sound of which the two and twenty hogs pricked up their pendulous ears.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Circe	Circe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	waved	wave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	wand	wand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	conj	_	_
24	hogs	hog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	pricked	prick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	pendulous	pendulous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wave** | past | Circe | Circe's wand |  |  | again |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wand=Patient |
| 2 | **repeat** | past | Circe *not said here* | a few magic words |  | the sound |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality |
| 3 | **prick up** | participle · passive |  | the two hogs |  |  |  | of the sound | tree rules |

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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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