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title: He seemed as fond of his three-headed dog as if it had been a sweet… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He seemed as fond of his three-headed dog as if it had been a sweet little spaniel, with silken ears and curly hair. Who acts: Pluto, dog. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 125

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He seemed as fond of his three-headed dog as if it had been a sweet little spaniel, with silken ears and curly hair.

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**Who acts:** Pluto, dog · **What happens:** seem, be · **To what, where:** sweet little spaniel

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pluto, dog), 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:pg976:20:125
# text = He seemed as fond of his three-headed dog as if it had been a sweet little spaniel, with silken ears and curly hair.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
7	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	headed	headed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
15	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	spaniel	spaniel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	silken	silken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	curly	curly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | Pluto |  |  |  |  | fond *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | dog | a sweet little spaniel and silken ears and curly hair |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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