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title: "O no, dear Proserpina," cried the sea nymphs; "we dare not go with… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "O no, dear Proserpina," cried the sea nymphs; "we dare not go with you upon the dry land. Who acts: dear Proserpina, we. 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 14

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"O no, dear Proserpina," cried the sea nymphs; "we dare not go with you upon the dry land.

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**Who acts:** dear Proserpina, we · **What happens:** cry, not go · **To what, where:** sea nymphs · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (dear Proserpina, we), 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:pg976:20:14
# text = "O no, dear Proserpina," cried the sea nymphs; "we dare not go with you upon the dry land.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
3	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	nymphs	nymph	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	dare	dare	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | dear Proserpina | the sea nymphs |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nymph=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **go** *in a quote* | dare | we |  |  |  |  | with you; upon the dry land | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with you=Beneficiary |

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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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