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title: I made all sorts of inquiries about the children, not doubting that… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I made all sorts of inquiries about the children, not doubting that there would be great eagerness to hear of their welfare, among some good little folks who have written to me, to ask for another volume of myths. Who acts: I, doubting. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Wa
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 59

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I made all sorts of inquiries about the children, not doubting that there would be great eagerness to hear of their welfare, among some good little folks who have written to me, to ask for another volume of myths.

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**Who acts:** I, doubting · **What happens:** make, not doubt, be, hear, write, ask · **To what, where:** sorts, great eagerness, good little folks, me, inquiries

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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, doubting), 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:pg976:2:59
# text = I made all sorts of inquiries about the children, not doubting that there would be great eagerness to hear of their welfare, among some good little folks who have written to me, to ask for another volume of myths.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	inquiries	inquiry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	doubting	doubt	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	csubj	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	16	expl	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
17	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	eagerness	eagerness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	welfare	welfare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	among	among	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
27	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	folks	folk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
30	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl:relcl	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	40	det	_	_
40	volume	volume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	myths	myth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | I | all sorts of inquiries about the children |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Product |
| 2 | **not** **doubt** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | infinitive | doubting | great eagerness and some good little folks |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hear** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of eagerness's welfare | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of welfare=Stimulus |
| 5 | **write** | present · perfect · passive |  | some good little folks | me |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to i=Recipient |
| 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for another volume of myths | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **sort** |  |  | inquiries about the children |  |  |  |  | nom sort «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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