--- title: "Upon my word," cried he, "I thought I had seen wonders before to-da… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: "Upon my word," cried he, "I thought I had seen wonders before to-day--hydras with nine heads, stags with golden horns, six-legged men, three-headed dogs, giants with furnaces in their stomachs, and nobody knows what besides. Who acts: Hercules, nobody, my. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hercules, nobody, my), 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:pg976:9:67 # text = "Upon my word," cried he, "I thought I had seen wonders before to-day--hydras with nine heads, stags with golden horns, six-legged men, three-headed dogs, giants with furnaces in their stomachs, and nobody knows what besides. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Upon upon ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 7 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 12 ccomp _ _ 16 wonders wonder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 17 before before ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ SpaceAfter=No 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 -- -- PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 hydras hydra NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 stags stag NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 horns horn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 34 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 legged legged ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 40 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 headed headed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 42 giants giant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 conj _ _ 43 with with ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 furnaces furnace NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nmod _ _ 45 in in ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod:poss _ _ 47 stomachs stomach NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 49 and and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 50 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 51 nsubj _ _ 51 knows know VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 52 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 53 nsubj _ _ 53 besides beside VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 51 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Hercules | | | | | upon my word | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past | Hercules | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **see** *in a quote* | past · perfect | Hercules | wonders | | | day | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wonder=Stimulus | | 4 | **know** *in a quote* | present | nobody | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **beside** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **word** *in a quote* | | my | | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/9/66/) - next →: [sentence 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/9/68/) - ↑ back to [The Pygmies., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/9/)