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title: Nor did I fail (as is the custom of landed proprietors all about the… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Nor did I fail (as is the custom of landed proprietors all about the world) to parade the poor fellow up and down over my half a dozen acres; secretly rejoicing, nevertheless, that the disarray of the inclement season, and particularly the six inches of snow then upon the ground, prevented him from 
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 5

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Nor did I fail (as is the custom of landed proprietors all about the world) to parade the poor fellow up and down over my half a dozen acres; secretly rejoicing, nevertheless, that the disarray of the inclement season, and particularly the six inches of snow then upon the ground, prevented him from observing the ragged neglect of soil and shrubbery into which the place had lapsed.

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**Who acts:** I, disarray · **What happens:** fail, be, land, parade, rejoice, prevent · **To what, where:** poor fellow, dozen acres, Mr., ragged neglect, place, soil

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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, disarray), 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:pg976:2:5
# text = Nor did I fail (as is the custom of landed proprietors all about the world) to parade the poor fellow up and down over my half a dozen acres; secretly rejoicing, nevertheless, that the disarray of the inclement season, and particularly the six inches of snow then upon the ground, prevented him from observing the ragged neglect of soil and shrubbery into which the place had lapsed.
1	Nor	nor	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fail	fail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	custom	custom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	landed	land	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	proprietors	proprietor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	all	all	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	about	about	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	parade	parade	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	up	up	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	down	down	ADV	RB	_	23	conj	_	_
26	over	over	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
27	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
28	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	31	det:predet	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	dozen	dozen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	acres	acre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	rejoicing	rejoice	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
38	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	disarray	disarray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nsubj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	inclement	inclement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
47	particularly	particularly	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	50	nummod	_	_
50	inches	inch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	conj	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	_
53	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	56	advmod	_	_
54	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
58	prevented	prevent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
59	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	obj	_	_
60	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	61	mark	_	_
61	observing	observe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	58	advcl	_	_
62	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
63	ragged	ragged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	64	amod	_	_
64	neglect	neglect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	obj	_	_
65	of	of	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
66	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	nmod	_	_
67	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	68	cc	_	_
68	shrubbery	shrubbery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	conj	_	_
69	into	into	ADP	IN	_	70	case	_	_
70	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	74	obl	_	_
71	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	72	det	_	_
72	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	74	nsubj:pass	_	_
73	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	74	aux	_	_
74	lapsed	lapse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	61	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
75	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fail** | past · do-support | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | as the custom and the world; of landed proprietors | tree rules |
| 3 | **land** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **parade** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the poor fellow |  | my dozen acres |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent fellow=Theme over acre=Trajectory |
| 5 | **rejoice** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | nevertheless, secretly *property* | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **prevent** | past | the disarray of the inclement season upon the ground and the six inches of snow | Mr. |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=Theme |
| 7 | **observe** | gerund | the disarray of the inclement season upon the ground and the six inches of snow *not said here* | the ragged neglect of soil and shrubbery |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent neglect=Topic |
| 8 | **lapse** | past · perfect · passive |  | the place |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **neglect** |  |  | soil |  |  |  |  | nom neglect «cognition 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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