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title: But do you wait for me here, and I will run and gather my apron full… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But do you wait for me here, and I will run and gather my apron full of flowers, and be back again before the surf wave has broken ten times over you. Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 19

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But do you wait for me here, and I will run and gather my apron full of flowers, and be back again before the surf wave has broken ten times over you.

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** wait, run, gather, be, break · **To what, where:** apron, surf wave

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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, I), 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:pg976:20:19
# text = But do you wait for me here, and I will run and gather my apron full of flowers, and be back again before the surf wave has broken ten times over you.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	gather	gather	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	apron	apron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
23	back	back	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
25	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	surf	surf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
31	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl:unmarked	_	_
33	over	over	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | present · do-support | you |  |  | here |  | for me | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **run** | future | I |  |  |  | again |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **gather** | infinitive | I *not said here* | my apron |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apron=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | back *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **break** | present · perfect · passive |  | the surf wave |  |  | time | over you | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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