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title: The objectionable characteristics seem to be a parasitical growth, h… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The objectionable characteristics seem to be a parasitical growth, having no essential connection with the original fable. Who acts: objectionable characteristics. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Wayside. Introductory., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 46

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The objectionable characteristics seem to be a parasitical growth, having no essential connection with the original fable.

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**Who acts:** objectionable characteristics · **What happens:** seem, be, have · **To what, where:** parasitical growth, essential connection

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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 (objectionable characteristics), 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:pg976:2:46
# text = The objectionable characteristics seem to be a parasitical growth, having no essential connection with the original fable.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	objectionable	objectionable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	characteristics	characteristic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	parasitical	parasitical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
13	essential	essential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	connection	connection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	fable	fable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | present | the objectionable characteristics |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive | the objectionable characteristics *not said here* | a parasitical growth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | gerund | the objectionable characteristics *not said here* | no essential connection |  |  |  | with the original fable | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent connection=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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