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title: She pretends to consider herself quite beyond the age to be interest… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She pretends to consider herself quite beyond the age to be interested by such idle stories as these; but, for all that, whenever a story is to be told, Primrose never fails to be one of the listeners, and to make fun of it when finished. Who acts: Clover. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathani
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 62

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She pretends to consider herself quite beyond the age to be interested by such idle stories as these; but, for all that, whenever a story is to be told, Primrose never fails to be one of the listeners, and to make fun of it when finished.

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**Who acts:** Clover · **What happens:** pretend, consider, be, tell, primrose, not fail · **To what, where:** Clover, story, one, fun · **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 (Clover), 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:pg976:2:62
# text = She pretends to consider herself quite beyond the age to be interested by such idle stories as these; but, for all that, whenever a story is to be told, Primrose never fails to be one of the listeners, and to make fun of it when finished.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	pretends	pretend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	consider	consider	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obj	_	_
6	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	advcl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	interested	interested	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	acl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	idle	idle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	34	obl	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
26	whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	32	advmod	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
34	Primrose	primrose	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
35	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
36	fails	fail	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	ccomp	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
38	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	cop	_	_
39	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	xcomp	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	listeners	listener	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
47	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nmod	_	_
50	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	51	advmod	_	_
51	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pretend** | present | Clover |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **consider** | to-infinitive | Clover *not said here* | Clover |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent herself=Attribute |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | Clover *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by such idle stories as these; interested *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | a story |  |  |  | whenever *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 5 | **primrose** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for all | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **fail** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | one |  |  |  | of the listeners | tree rules |
| 8 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | fun of fun |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fun=Product |
| 9 | **finish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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