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title: I had not swallowed a morsel; but--dear mother, I hope it was no har… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I had not swallowed a morsel; but--dear mother, I hope it was no harm--but six of the pomegranate seeds, I am afraid, remained in my mouth." Who acts: I, morsel, six. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 58

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I had not swallowed a morsel; but--dear mother, I hope it was no harm--but six of the pomegranate seeds, I am afraid, remained in my mouth."

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**Who acts:** I, morsel, six · **What happens:** not swallow, hope, be, remain · **To what, where:** morsel, harm, mouth · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, morsel, six), 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:pg976:24:58
# text = I had not swallowed a morsel; but--dear mother, I hope it was no harm--but six of the pomegranate seeds, I am afraid, remained in my mouth."
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	morsel	morsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	dislocated	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	hope	hope	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
21	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	pomegranate	pomegranate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	conj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **swallow** | past · perfect | I | a morsel |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent morsel=Patient |
| 2 | **hope** | present | I |  |  |  |  | dear mother *dislocated* | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **is a** | past | morsel | no harm |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | six of the pomegranate seeds |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **remain** | participle | six of the pomegranate seeds *not said here* |  |  | my mouth |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mouth=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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