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title: All this time, being of a cheerful and active disposition, the littl… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: All this time, being of a cheerful and active disposition, the little damsel was not quite so unhappy as you may have supposed. Who acts: little damsel. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 57

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All this time, being of a cheerful and active disposition, the little damsel was not quite so unhappy as you may have supposed.

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**Who acts:** little damsel · **What happens:** be, not be, suppose · **To what, where:** you

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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 (little damsel), 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:pg976:23:57
# text = All this time, being of a cheerful and active disposition, the little damsel was not quite so unhappy as you may have supposed.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
5	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	cop	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	active	active	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	disposition	disposition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	damsel	damsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
18	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux	_	_
25	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | of a cheerful disposition | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past | the little damsel |  |  |  |  | unhappy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **suppose** | may · perfect · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute |

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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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