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title: But to me there is a peculiar, quiet charm in these broad meadows an… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But to me there is a peculiar, quiet charm in these broad meadows and gentle eminences. Who acts: peculiar. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Wayside. Introductory., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 8

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But to me there is a peculiar, quiet charm in these broad meadows and gentle eminences.

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**Who acts:** peculiar · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** me

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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 (peculiar), 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:pg976:2:8
# text = But to me there is a peculiar, quiet charm in these broad meadows and gentle eminences.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	peculiar	peculiar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	charm	charm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
13	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	eminences	eminence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a peculiar |  | me | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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