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title: I wish there were any likelihood of my soon seeing Primrose, Periwin… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I wish there were any likelihood of my soon seeing Primrose, Periwinkle, Dandelion, Sweet Fern, Clover Plantain, Huckleberry, Milkweed, Cowslip, Buttercup, Blue Eye, and Squash Blossom again. Who acts: I, likelihood. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Wayside. Introductory.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 74

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I wish there were any likelihood of my soon seeing Primrose, Periwinkle, Dandelion, Sweet Fern, Clover Plantain, Huckleberry, Milkweed, Cowslip, Buttercup, Blue Eye, and Squash Blossom again.

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**Who acts:** I, likelihood · **What happens:** wish, be, see · **To what, where:** Primrose · **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 (I, likelihood), 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:pg976:2:74
# text = I wish there were any likelihood of my soon seeing Primrose, Periwinkle, Dandelion, Sweet Fern, Clover Plantain, Huckleberry, Milkweed, Cowslip, Buttercup, Blue Eye, and Squash Blossom again.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wish	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
5	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	likelihood	likelihood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
10	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
11	Primrose	Primrose	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Periwinkle	Periwinkle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Dandelion	Dandelion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	Sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Fern	Fern	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	Clover	Clover	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Plantain	Plantain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Huckleberry	Huckleberry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	Milkweed	Milkweed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	Cowslip	cowslip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	Buttercup	Buttercup	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	Blue	Blue	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	Eye	Eye	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	Squash	Squash	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	Blossom	Blossom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
37	again	again	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | past | any likelihood |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | gerund | any likelihood *not said here* | Primrose and Periwinkle and Dandelion and Sweet Fern and Clover Plantain and Huckleberry and Milkweed and Cowslip and Buttercup and Blue Eye and Squash Blossom |  |  | again | soon *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer primrose=Stimulus |

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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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