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title: "Will not you stay a moment," asked Phoebus, "and hear me turn the p… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Will not you stay a moment," asked Phoebus, "and hear me turn the pretty and touching story of Proserpina into extemporary verses?" Who acts: you, Phoebus, Ceres. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 75

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"Will not you stay a moment," asked Phoebus, "and hear me turn the pretty and touching story of Proserpina into extemporary verses?"

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**Who acts:** you, Phoebus, Ceres · **What happens:** not stay, ask, hear, turn, touch · **To what, where:** Ceres, pretty, story, extemporary verses · **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 (you, Phoebus, Ceres), 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:pg976:22:75
# text = "Will not you stay a moment," asked Phoebus, "and hear me turn the pretty and touching story of Proserpina into extemporary verses?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
11	Phoebus	phoebus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	pretty	pretty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	touching	touch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
22	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	extemporary	extemporary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	verses	verse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **stay** *in a quote* | future | you |  |  |  | moment |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Phoebus |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hear** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | Ceres |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **turn** *in a quote* | infinitive | Ceres *not said here* | the pretty |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pretty=Theme |
| 5 | **touch** *in a quote* | gerund | Ceres *not said here* | story of Proserpina |  | extemporary verses |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme story=Co-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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