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title: Only sip a little of it, my dear Proserpina, and you will instantly… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Only sip a little of it, my dear Proserpina, and you will instantly cease to grieve for your mother, and will have nothing in your memory that can prevent your being perfectly happy in my palace. Who acts: you, that. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., pa
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 18

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Only sip a little of it, my dear Proserpina, and you will instantly cease to grieve for your mother, and will have nothing in your memory that can prevent your being perfectly happy in my palace.

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**Who acts:** you, that · **What happens:** sip, cease, grieve, have, prevent, be · **To what, where:** little, nothing, memory, palace

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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 (you, that), 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:pg976:21:18
# text = Only sip a little of it, my dear Proserpina, and you will instantly cease to grieve for your mother, and will have nothing in your memory that can prevent your being perfectly happy in my palace.
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	sip	sip	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Proserpina	proserpina	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	cease	cease	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	grieve	grieve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	have	have	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
26	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	25	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
31	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
33	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
34	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	cop	_	_
35	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	ccomp	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sip** | imperative | you *not said here* | a little of Lethe |  |  |  | my dear Proserpina *obl* | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Patient |
| 2 | **cease** | future | you |  |  |  |  | instantly *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **grieve** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for your mother | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **have** | future | you *not said here* | nothing |  | your memory |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 5 | **prevent** | can | that |  |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 6 | **is** | gerund | that *not said here* |  |  | my palace |  | happy, perfectly *property* | 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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