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title: "It suits my taste, however," answered Pluto, who was apt to be sull… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "It suits my taste, however," answered Pluto, who was apt to be sullen when anybody disagreed with him. " Who acts: Lethe, Pluto, anybody, my. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 16

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"It suits my taste, however," answered Pluto, who was apt to be sullen when anybody disagreed with him. "

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**Who acts:** Lethe, Pluto, anybody, my · **What happens:** suit, answer, be, disagree, taste · **To what, where:** taste · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lethe, Pluto, anybody, my), 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:pg976:21:16
# text = "It suits my taste, however," answered Pluto, who was apt to be sullen when anybody disagreed with him. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	suits	suit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	however	however	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	apt	apt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
18	sullen	sullen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	csubj	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
20	anybody	anybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	21	nsubj	_	_
21	disagreed	disagree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suit** *in a quote* | present | Lethe | my taste |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Pluto |  |  |  |  | however *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | Pluto |  |  |  |  | apt *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | sullen *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **disagree** | past | anybody |  |  |  |  | with Proserpina | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme whether S»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent |
| 6 | **taste** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom taste «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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