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title: He certainly did very wrong to carry me off; but then, as he says, i… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He certainly did very wrong to carry me off; but then, as he says, it was but a dismal sort of life for him, to live in that great gloomy place, all alone; and it has made a wonderful change in his spirits to have a little girl to run up stairs and down. Who acts: King, six, little girl. A sentence 
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 65

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He certainly did very wrong to carry me off; but then, as he says, it was but a dismal sort of life for him, to live in that great gloomy place, all alone; and it has made a wonderful change in his spirits to have a little girl to run up stairs and down.

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**Who acts:** King, six, little girl · **What happens:** do, carry off, say, be, live, make · **To what, where:** me, great gloomy place, six, little girl, stairs, life · **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 (King, six, little girl), 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:pg976:24:65
# text = He certainly did very wrong to carry me off; but then, as he says, it was but a dismal sort of life for him, to live in that great gloomy place, all alone; and it has made a wonderful change in his spirits to have a little girl to run up stairs and down.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	off	off	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	dismal	dismal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	35	nsubj	_	_
33	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	all	all	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
42	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nmod	_	_
50	to	to	PART	TO	_	51	mark	_	_
51	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	advcl	_	_
52	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
53	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	_
55	to	to	PART	TO	_	56	mark	_	_
56	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	xcomp	_	_
57	up	up	ADP	RP	_	56	compound:prt	_	_
58	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	obj	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
60	down	down	ADV	RB	_	56	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | King |  |  |  |  | certainly, wrong *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **carry off** | to-infinitive | King *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | King |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **is** | past | six |  |  |  |  | for Pluto | tree rules |
| 5 | **live** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | great gloomy place |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location |
| 6 | **make** | present · perfect · passive |  | six |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary change=Product |
| 7 | **have** | to-infinitive |  | a little girl |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **run up** | to-infinitive | a little girl *not said here* | stairs |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stair=Trajectory |
| 9 | **sort** |  |  | life |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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