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title: Ulysses ordered Circe instantly to make a king of this good little f… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Ulysses ordered Circe instantly to make a king of this good little fowl, and leave him exactly as she found him. Who acts: Ulysses, Circe. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 5, sentence 5

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Ulysses ordered Circe instantly to make a king of this good little fowl, and leave him exactly as she found him.

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**Who acts:** Ulysses, Circe · **What happens:** order, make, leave, find · **To what, where:** Circe, king, Ulysses

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ulysses, 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:pg976:19:5
# text = Ulysses ordered Circe instantly to make a king of this good little fowl, and leave him exactly as she found him.
1	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Circe	Circe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	_
11	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	fowl	fowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **order** | past | Ulysses |  | Circe |  |  | instantly *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent circe=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | Ulysses *not said here* | a king of good little fowl |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset king=Product |
| 3 | **leave** | infinitive | Ulysses *not said here* | Ulysses |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **find** | past | Circe | Ulysses |  |  |  | exactly *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |

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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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