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title: Only six months with me, and six with that good-for-nothing King of… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Only six months with me, and six with that good-for-nothing King of Darkness!" 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 62

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Only six months with me, and six with that good-for-nothing King of Darkness!"

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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: 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:pg976:24:62
# text = Only six months with me, and six with that good-for-nothing King of Darkness!"
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	appos	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	nsubj	_	_
11	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	8	nmod	_	_
16	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Darkness	Darkness	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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