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title: I doubt whether Eustace did not internally pronounce the whole thing… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I doubt whether Eustace did not internally pronounce the whole thing a bore, until I led him to my predecessor's little ruined, rustic summer house, midway on the hillside. Who acts: I, Eustace, predecessor. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Wayside. Introductory., with it
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 11

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I doubt whether Eustace did not internally pronounce the whole thing a bore, until I led him to my predecessor's little ruined, rustic summer house, midway on the hillside.

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**Who acts:** I, Eustace, predecessor · **What happens:** doubt, not pronounce, lead, ruin · **To what, where:** whole thing, Eustace, predecessor, little

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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, Eustace, predecessor), 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:pg976:2:11
# text = I doubt whether Eustace did not internally pronounce the whole thing a bore, until I led him to my predecessor's little ruined, rustic summer house, midway on the hillside.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	doubt	doubt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	Eustace	Eustace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	internally	internally	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	pronounce	pronounce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bore	bore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	predecessor	predecessor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	ruined	ruin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	rustic	rustic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	midway	midway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	hillside	hillside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **doubt** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **pronounce** | past · do-support | Eustace | the whole thing |  |  |  | internally *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme bore=Result |
| 3 | **lead** | past | I | Eustace |  | my predecessor and rustic summer house and midway on the hillside |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to predecessor=Destination |
| 4 | **ruin** | participle | my predecessor and rustic summer house and midway on the hillside *not said here* | little |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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