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title: I am happy to tell you, my dear madam, that I did see the little Pro… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I am happy to tell you, my dear madam, that I did see the little Proserpina not many days ago. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 54

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I am happy to tell you, my dear madam, that I did see the little Proserpina not many days ago.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** be, tell, see · **To what, where:** dear madam, you, little Proserpina · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg976:22:54
# text = I am happy to tell you, my dear madam, that I did see the little Proserpina not many days ago.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	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	madam	madam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | my dear madam | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 3 | **see** | past · do-support | I | the little Proserpina |  |  |  | ago *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer proserpina=Stimulus |

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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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