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title: "You are a very discourteous Giant," answered the stranger quietly,… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "You are a very discourteous Giant," answered the stranger quietly, "and I shall probably have to teach you a little civility, before we part. Who acts: You, stranger, others. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 57

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"You are a very discourteous Giant," answered the stranger quietly, "and I shall probably have to teach you a little civility, before we part.

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**Who acts:** You, stranger, others · **What happens:** be, answer, have, teach · **To what, where:** little civility, you · **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 (You, stranger, others), 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:pg976:8:57
# text = "You are a very discourteous Giant," answered the stranger quietly, "and I shall probably have to teach you a little civility, before we part.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	discourteous	discourteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	teach	teach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	iobj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	civility	civility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	before	before	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | You |  |  |  |  | giant *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the stranger |  |  |  |  | quietly *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | shall | others *= other* |  |  |  |  | probably *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **teach** *speech: other* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | others *= other* *not said here* | a little civility | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient civility=Topic |

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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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