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title: But, then, you must consider, my dear child, that this vast palace i… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 17

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But, then, you must consider, my dear child, that this vast palace is apt to be gloomy (although the precious stones certainly shine very bright), and that I am not of the most cheerful disposition, and that therefore it was a natural thing enough to seek for the society of some merrier creature than myself.

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**Who acts:** you, vast palace, I, that · **What happens:** consider, be, shine, not be, seek · **To what, where:** natural thing

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, vast palace, I, that), 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:pg976:24:17
# text = But, then, you must consider, my dear child, that this vast palace is apt to be gloomy (although the precious stones certainly shine very bright), and that I am not of the most cheerful disposition, and that therefore it was a natural thing enough to seek for the society of some merrier creature than myself.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	consider	consider	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
15	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	apt	apt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
21	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	csubj	_	_
22	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
27	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	shine	shine	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	_
29	very	very	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
35	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
36	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
37	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	42	advmod	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
40	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	41	advmod	_	_
41	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	disposition	disposition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
45	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	51	nsubj	_	_
46	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
47	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
48	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	cop	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	appos	_	_
52	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
53	to	to	PART	TO	_	54	mark	_	_
54	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	acl	_	_
55	for	for	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	society	society	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	_
58	of	of	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
59	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	61	det	_	_
60	merrier	merry	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	61	amod	_	_
61	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nmod	_	_
62	than	than	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
63	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	61	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consider** | must | you |  |  |  | then |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | this vast palace |  |  |  |  | apt *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | gloomy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **shine** | present |  |  |  |  |  | although the precious stones; bright, certainly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | of the cheerful disposition | tree rules |
| 6 | **is a** | past | that | a natural thing |  |  |  | enough, therefore *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **seek** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the society of some merrier creature than myself | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for society=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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