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title: At any rate, it was now six months since she left the outside of the… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At any rate, it was now six months since she left the outside of the earth; and not a morsel, so far as the attendants were able to testify, had yet passed between her teeth. Who acts: rate, Proserpina, attendants. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 54

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At any rate, it was now six months since she left the outside of the earth; and not a morsel, so far as the attendants were able to testify, had yet passed between her teeth.

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**Who acts:** rate, Proserpina, attendants · **What happens:** be, leave, testify, pass · **To what, where:** six months, rate, outside, teeth

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rate, Proserpina, attendants), 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:pg976:23:54
# text = At any rate, it was now six months since she left the outside of the earth; and not a morsel, so far as the attendants were able to testify, had yet passed between her teeth.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	outside	outside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	morsel	morsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	attendants	attendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	testify	testify	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
37	between	between	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | rate | six months |  | any rate |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** | past | Proserpina | the outside of the earth |  |  |  | a morsel *obl* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent outside=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | the attendants |  |  |  |  | able, far *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **testify** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | the attendants *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **pass** | past · perfect | Proserpina *not said here* |  |  | Proserpina's teeth | yet |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between tooth=Location |

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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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