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title: But let us adjourn to my study, and examine these new stories. — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But let us adjourn to my study, and examine these new stories. Who acts: you, us, my. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Wayside. Introductory., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 30

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But let us adjourn to my study, and examine these new stories.

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**Who acts:** you, us, my · **What happens:** let, adjourn, examine, study · **To what, where:** us, new stories

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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 (you, us, my), 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:pg976:2:30
# text = But let us adjourn to my study, and examine these new stories.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	adjourn	adjourn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	examine	examine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
12	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **adjourn** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to my study | tree rules |
| 3 | **examine** | infinitive | you *not said here* | this new stories |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme |
| 4 | **study** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom study «act transitive»: poss=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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