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title: But I can see plainly enough, that you think my palace a dusky priso… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But I can see plainly enough, that you think my palace a dusky prison, and me the iron-hearted keeper of it. Who acts: I, you, me. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 23

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But I can see plainly enough, that you think my palace a dusky prison, and me the iron-hearted keeper of it.

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**Who acts:** I, you, me · **What happens:** see, think, keeper · **To what, where:** palace

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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 (I, you, me), 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:pg976:24:23
# text = But I can see plainly enough, that you think my palace a dusky prison, and me the iron-hearted keeper of it.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	plainly	plainly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	dusky	dusky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	hearted	hearted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	keeper	keeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | can | I |  |  |  |  | enough, plainly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present | you | my palace |  |  |  | a dusky prison *obl:unmarked* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot palace=Theme |
| 3 | **keeper** |  | me |  |  |  |  | of keeper | tree rules |

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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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