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title: A short time ago, I was favored with a flying visit from my young fr… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: A short time ago, I was favored with a flying visit from my young friend Eustace Bright, whom I had not before met with since quitting the breezy mountains of Berkshire. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Wayside. Introductory., with its dependency tree and the
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 1

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A short time ago, I was favored with a flying visit from my young friend Eustace Bright, whom I had not before met with since quitting the breezy mountains of Berkshire.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** favor, fly, meet, quit · **To what, where:** I, flying visit, breezy mountains

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Wayside. Introductory.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg976:2:1
# text = A short time ago, I was favored with a flying visit from my young friend Eustace Bright, whom I had not before met with since quitting the breezy mountains of Berkshire.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	favored	favor	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	amod	_	_
12	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	Eustace	Eustace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
18	Bright	Bright	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	obl	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	before	before	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
26	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
28	quitting	quit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	breezy	breezy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Berkshire	Berkshire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **favor** | past · passive |  | I |  |  | time | with a flying visit from my young friend | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **fly** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **meet** | past · perfect | I | a flying visit from my young friend |  |  |  | before *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **quit** | gerund | I *not said here* | the breezy mountains of Berkshire |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Source |

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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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