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title: And don't you see how careful we are to let the surf wave break over… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And don't you see how careful we are to let the surf wave break over us every moment or two, so as to keep ourselves comfortably moist? Who acts: you, we. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 16

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And don't you see how careful we are to let the surf wave break over us every moment or two, so as to keep ourselves comfortably moist?

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**Who acts:** you, we · **What happens:** not see, be, let, keep · **To what, where:** wave break, ourselves

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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 (you, 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:pg976:20:16
# text = And don't you see how careful we are to let the surf wave break over us every moment or two, so as to keep ourselves comfortably moist?
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
7	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
8	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	surf	surf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	break	break	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	over	over	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
18	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
27	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	26	obj	_	_
28	comfortably	comfortably	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
29	moist	moist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **see** | infinitive · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | present | we |  |  |  |  | careful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **let** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | the wave break |  |  | moment | over us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent break=Theme |
| 4 | **keep** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | ourselves |  |  |  | comfortably, moist *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ourselves=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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