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title: "It would, indeed," answered I. "The summer house itself, so airy an… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "It would, indeed," answered I. "The summer house itself, so airy and so broken, is like one of those old tales, imperfectly remembered; and these living branches of the Baldwin apple tree, thrusting so rudely in, are like your unwarrantable interpolations. Who acts: I.. A sentence of «Tanglewood Ta
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 18

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"It would, indeed," answered I. "The summer house itself, so airy and so broken, is like one of those old tales, imperfectly remembered; and these living branches of the Baldwin apple tree, thrusting so rudely in, are like your unwarrantable interpolations.

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**Who acts:** I. · **What happens:** answer, break, be, remember, thrust · **To what, where:** living branches, old tales, unwarrantable interpolations · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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:pg976:2:18
# text = "It would, indeed," answered I. "The summer house itself, so airy and so broken, is like one of those old tales, imperfectly remembered; and these living branches of the Baldwin apple tree, thrusting so rudely in, are like your unwarrantable interpolations.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	I.	I.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
14	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	13	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	airy	airy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	like	like	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
27	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	imperfectly	imperfectly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	remembered	remember	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	36	det	_	_
35	living	living	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
39	Baldwin	Baldwin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
40	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	thrusting	thrust	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
44	so	so	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	rudely	rudely	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
48	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	52	cop	_	_
49	like	like	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
51	unwarrantable	unwarrantable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	interpolations	interpolation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	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 | **answer** *speech: assert* | would | I. | this living branches of the Baldwin apple tree |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **break** *in a quote* | participle | I. *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | I. *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like one; of that old tales | tree rules |
| 4 | **remember** *in a quote* | participle |  | that old tales *not said here* |  |  |  | imperfectly *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **thrust** *in a quote* | gerund | I. *not said here* |  |  |  |  | rudely *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  | your unwarrantable interpolations |  |  | 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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