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title: Eustace put his bundle of manuscript into my hands; and I skimmed th… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Eustace put his bundle of manuscript into my hands; and I skimmed through it pretty rapidly, trying to find out its merits and demerits by the touch of my fingers, as a veteran story-teller ought to know how to do. Who acts: Eustace, I, veteran story teller. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Natha
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 33

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Eustace put his bundle of manuscript into my hands; and I skimmed through it pretty rapidly, trying to find out its merits and demerits by the touch of my fingers, as a veteran story-teller ought to know how to do.

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**Who acts:** Eustace, I, veteran story teller · **What happens:** put, skim, try, find out, know, do · **To what, where:** bundle, hands, manuscript, merits, fingers · **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 (Eustace, I, veteran story teller), 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:pg976:2:33
# text = Eustace put his bundle of manuscript into my hands; and I skimmed through it pretty rapidly, trying to find out its merits and demerits by the touch of my fingers, as a veteran story-teller ought to know how to do.
1	Eustace	Eustace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	bundle	bundle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	manuscript	manuscript	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	skimmed	skim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	through	through	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	merits	merit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	demerits	demerit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
34	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
36	veteran	veteran	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
37	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	teller	teller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
40	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	parataxis	_	_
43	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	45	advmod	_	_
44	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
45	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	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 | **put** | past | Eustace | Eustace's bundle of manuscript |  | my hands |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent bundle=Goal |
| 2 | **skim** | past | I |  |  | manuscript |  | rapidly *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **try** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **find out** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | manuscript's merits and demerits |  |  |  | by the touch of my fingers | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent merit=Topic |
| 5 | **know** | ought | a veteran story teller |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **do** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **touch** |  |  | my fingers |  |  |  |  | nom touch «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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