--- title: Circe, my father's sister, taught me to be one, and I could tell you… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Circe, my father's sister, taught me to be one, and I could tell you, if I pleased, who was the old woman with the peacock, the pomegranate, and the cuckoo staff, whom you carried over the river; and, likewise, who it is that speaks through the lips of the oaken image, that stands in the prow of you --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/28/46/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Tanglewood Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/) / [The Golden Fleece., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/28/) / 46 # Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 46 Circe, my father's sister, taught me to be one, and I could tell you, if I pleased, who was the old woman with the peacock, the pomegranate, and the cuckoo staff, whom you carried over the river; and, likewise, who it is that speaks through the lips of the oaken image, that stands in the prow of your galley. **Who acts:** Circe, I, cuckoo staff, oaken image · **What happens:** teach, be, tell, carry, stand · **To what, where:** me, one, you, old woman, river, lips · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Circe, I, cuckoo staff, oaken image), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg976:28:46 # text = Circe, my father's sister, taught me to be one, and I could tell you, if I pleased, who was the old woman with the peacock, the pomegranate, and the cuckoo staff, whom you carried over the river; and, likewise, who it is that speaks through the lips of the oaken image, that stands in the prow of your galley. 1 Circe circe NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 8 taught teach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 iobj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 11 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 12 cop _ _ 12 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 if if SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 pleased pleased ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 parataxis _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 peacock peacock NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 pomegranate pomegranate NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 cuckoo cuckoo NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 staff staff NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 43 obj _ _ 42 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 44 over over ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ; ; PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 56 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 50 likewise likewise ADV RB _ 56 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 51 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 52 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 56 nsubj _ _ 53 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 56 nsubj _ _ 54 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 56 cop _ _ 55 that that SCONJ IN _ 56 mark _ _ 56 speaks speak VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 conj _ _ 57 through through ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 58 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 59 det _ _ 59 lips lip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 56 obl _ _ 60 of of ADP IN _ 63 case _ _ 61 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 63 det _ _ 62 oaken oaken ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 63 amod _ _ 63 image image NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 64 , , PUNCT , _ 66 punct _ _ 65 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 66 nsubj _ _ 66 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 63 acl:relcl _ _ 67 in in ADP IN _ 69 case _ _ 68 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 69 det _ _ 69 prow prow NOUN NN Number=Sing 66 obl _ _ 70 of of ADP IN _ 72 case _ _ 71 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 72 nmod:poss _ _ 72 galley galley NOUN NN Number=Sing 69 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 73 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | Circe | | me | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | | 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive | | one | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | could | I | | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | | 4 | **is a** | past | | the old woman and the pomegranate | | | | with the peacock | tree rules | | 5 | **carry** | past | the cuckoo staff | | | the river | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme | | 6 | **is** | present | | | | the lips of the oaken image | | likewise, speak *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **stand** | present | the oaken image | | | the prow of your galley | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in prow=Location | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/28/45/) - next →: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/28/47/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Fleece., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/28/)