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title: This was the first fruit she had seen there, and the last she was ev… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This was the first fruit she had seen there, and the last she was ever likely to see; and unless she ate it up immediately, it would grow drier than it already was, and be wholly unfit to eat. Who acts: This, choice, last, fruit. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegrana
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 6

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This was the first fruit she had seen there, and the last she was ever likely to see; and unless she ate it up immediately, it would grow drier than it already was, and be wholly unfit to eat.

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**Who acts:** This, choice, last, fruit · **What happens:** be, see, eat up, grow, eat · **To what, where:** first fruit, fruit

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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 (This, choice, last, fruit), 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:pg976:24:6
# text = This was the first fruit she had seen there, and the last she was ever likely to see; and unless she ate it up immediately, it would grow drier than it already was, and be wholly unfit to eat.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	nsubj	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	17	advmod	_	_
17	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
22	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
27	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
32	drier	dry	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	31	xcomp	_	_
33	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	already	already	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
39	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	cop	_	_
40	wholly	wholly	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	unfit	unfit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | This | the first fruit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | past · perfect | choice | the first fruit *not said here* |  | there |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fruit=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | past | the last |  |  |  | ever | likely *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | the last *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **eat up** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | choice | fruit |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 6 | **grow** | would | fruit |  |  |  |  | dry *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **be** | past | fruit |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **is** | infinitive | fruit *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unfit, wholly *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **eat** | to-infinitive | fruit *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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