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title: At first the spectators hardly knew whether to call them hogs or men… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At first the spectators hardly knew whether to call them hogs or men, but by and by came to the conclusion that they rather resembled the latter. Who acts: spectators. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 96

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At first the spectators hardly knew whether to call them hogs or men, but by and by came to the conclusion that they rather resembled the latter.

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**Who acts:** spectators · **What happens:** know, call, come, resemble · **To what, where:** spectators, conclusion, latter · **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 (spectators), 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:pg976:18:96
# text = At first the spectators hardly knew whether to call them hogs or men, but by and by came to the conclusion that they rather resembled the latter.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	spectators	spectator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	hogs	hog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	conj	_	_
19	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	conclusion	conclusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	resembled	resemble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | the spectators |  |  |  |  | hardly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **call** | to-infinitive | the spectators *not said here* | spectators *= spectator* |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme hog=Result |
| 3 | **come** | past | the spectators *not said here* |  |  | the conclusion |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to conclusion=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **resemble** | past | spectators *= spectator* | the latter |  |  |  |  | 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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