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title: And there lies this dear brother--this sweet and amiable friend--thi… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And there lies this dear brother--this sweet and amiable friend--this brave and faithful ally---this virtuous Giant--this blameless and excellent Antaeus--dead! Who acts: this. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 14

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And there lies this dear brother--this sweet and amiable friend--this brave and faithful ally---this virtuous Giant--this blameless and excellent Antaeus--dead!

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**Who acts:** this · **What happens:** lie, friend · **To what, where:** dear brother

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this), 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:pg976:9:14
# text = And there lies this dear brother--this sweet and amiable friend--this brave and faithful ally---this virtuous Giant--this blameless and excellent Antaeus--dead!
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj	_	_
9	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	amiable	amiable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	nsubj	_	_
15	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	ally	ally	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	---	---	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	nsubj	_	_
21	virtuous	virtuous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	nsubj	_	_
25	blameless	blameless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	excellent	excellent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
28	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	!	!	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 |  | this dear brother and sweet friend |  | there |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location brother=Theme |
| 2 | **friend** |  | this |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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