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title: There he lies yet; and whoever desires to enrich himself by means of… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There he lies yet; and whoever desires to enrich himself by means of brass had better go thither with a diving bell, and fish up Talus. Who acts: Talus, whoever. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 82

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There he lies yet; and whoever desires to enrich himself by means of brass had better go thither with a diving bell, and fish up Talus.

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**Who acts:** Talus, whoever · **What happens:** lie, desire, enrich, mean, have, go · **To what, where:** Talus · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., 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 (Talus, whoever), 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:pg976:6:82
# text = There he lies yet; and whoever desires to enrich himself by means of brass had better go thither with a diving bell, and fish up Talus.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	desires	desire	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	enrich	enrich	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obj	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	brass	brass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
16	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
17	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
18	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	diving	diving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	fish	fish	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	Talus	Talus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | present | Talus |  |  | there | yet |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **desire** | present | whoever |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **enrich** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | whoever *not said here* | Talus |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme himself=Destination |
| 4 | **mean** | present | whoever *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **have** | past |  |  |  |  |  | of brass | tree rules |
| 6 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with a diving bell; thither, well *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with bell=Beneficiary |
| 7 | **fish up** | infinitive |  | Talus |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talus=Theme |

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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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