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title: Dear me! what an everlasting pity! — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Dear me! what an everlasting pity! 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 9

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Dear me! what an everlasting pity!

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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:pg976:24:9
# text = Dear me! what an everlasting pity!
1	Dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	everlasting	everlasting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	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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