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title: Are not these gems, which I have ordered to be dug for you, and whic… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Are not these gems, which I have ordered to be dug for you, and which are richer than any in my crown--are they not prettier than a violet?" Who acts: I, gems, my. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 75

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Are not these gems, which I have ordered to be dug for you, and which are richer than any in my crown--are they not prettier than a violet?"

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**Who acts:** I, gems, my · **What happens:** not be, order, dig, be, crown · **To what, where:** gems

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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 (I, gems, my), 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:pg976:23:75
# text = Are not these gems, which I have ordered to be dug for you, and which are richer than any in my crown--are they not prettier than a violet?"
1	Are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	gems	gem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obj	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	ordered	order	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	acl:relcl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	dug	dig	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	xcomp	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	richer	rich	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	conj	_	_
20	than	than	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	prettier	pretty	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
30	than	than	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	violet	violet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present |  | this gems |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **order** | present · perfect | I | this gems |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent which=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **dig** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | this gems *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for you | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: for you=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | than any; rich *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **is** | present | this gems |  |  |  |  | than a violet; pretty *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **crown** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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