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title: Eustace informed me that he had told his stories to the children in… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Eustace informed me that he had told his stories to the children in various situations--in the woods, on the shore of the lake, in the dell of Shadow Brook, in the playroom, at Tanglewood fireside, and in a magnificent palace of snow, with ice windows, which he helped his little friends to build. Wh
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 56

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Eustace informed me that he had told his stories to the children in various situations--in the woods, on the shore of the lake, in the dell of Shadow Brook, in the playroom, at Tanglewood fireside, and in a magnificent palace of snow, with ice windows, which he helped his little friends to build.

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**Who acts:** Eustace, ice windows, little friends · **What happens:** inform, tell, help, build · **To what, where:** me, stories, children, woods, little friends · **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, ice windows, little friends), 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:pg976:2:56
# text = Eustace informed me that he had told his stories to the children in various situations--in the woods, on the shore of the lake, in the dell of Shadow Brook, in the playroom, at Tanglewood fireside, and in a magnificent palace of snow, with ice windows, which he helped his little friends to build.
1	Eustace	Eustace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	informed	inform	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	situations	situation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	dell	dell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Shadow	Shadow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	Brook	Brook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	playroom	playroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	at	at	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	Tanglewood	Tanglewood	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	fireside	fireside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
51	with	with	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
53	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
55	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	57	nsubj	_	_
56	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
57	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	acl:relcl	_	_
58	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	60	nmod:poss	_	_
59	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
60	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	obj	_	_
61	to	to	PART	TO	_	62	mark	_	_
62	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	57	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inform** *speech: other* | past | Eustace |  | me |  |  |  | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | Eustace | Eustace's stories | the children in various situations | the woods |  | on the shore of the lake; in the dell of Shadow | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Topic to child=Recipient |
| 3 | **help** | past | ice windows | Eustace's little friends |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent friend=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 4 | **build** | to-infinitive | Eustace's little friends *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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