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title: There was one strange thing about Antaeus, of which I have not yet t… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There was one strange thing about Antaeus, of which I have not yet told you, lest, hearing of so many wonders all in a lump, you might not believe much more than half of them. Who acts: one strange thing, you, many wonders. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 40

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There was one strange thing about Antaeus, of which I have not yet told you, lest, hearing of so many wonders all in a lump, you might not believe much more than half of them.

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**Who acts:** one strange thing, you, many wonders · **What happens:** be, not tell, not believe, hear · **To what, where:** I, you, half · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one strange thing, you, many wonders), 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:pg976:8:40
# text = There was one strange thing about Antaeus, of which I have not yet told you, lest, hearing of so many wonders all in a lump, you might not believe much more than half of them.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obl	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
14	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	20	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	parataxis	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	wonders	wonder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
25	all	all	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	lump	lump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
34	much	much	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	37	advmod	_	_
36	than	than	ADP	IN	_	35	fixed	_	_
37	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	33	obj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | one strange thing about Antaeus |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | present · perfect · passive |  | I | you |  | yet | of one strange thing about Antaeus | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient you=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **believe** | might | you | half of dominions |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer half=Stimulus |
| 4 | **hear** |  | many wonders in a lump |  |  |  |  |  | nom hearing «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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