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title: "My good little people," said he, making a low obeisance to the gran… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "My good little people," said he, making a low obeisance to the grand nation, "not for all the world would I do an intentional injury to such brave fellows as you! Who acts: good little people, world. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 3, with its dependency 
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 73

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"My good little people," said he, making a low obeisance to the grand nation, "not for all the world would I do an intentional injury to such brave fellows as you!

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**Who acts:** good little people, world · **What happens:** say, make, do · **To what, where:** low obeisance, intentional injury · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (good little people, world), 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:pg976:9:73
# text = "My good little people," said he, making a low obeisance to the grand nation, "not for all the world would I do an intentional injury to such brave fellows as you!
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
3	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	obeisance	obeisance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	25	det:predet	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	intentional	intentional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	injury	injury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	fellows	fellow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
36	as	as	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | My good little people |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | gerund | My good little people *not said here* | a low obeisance |  |  |  | to the grand nation | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset obeisance=Product |
| 3 | **do** *in a quote* | would | all world | a intentional injury |  |  |  | to such brave fellows; as you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent injury=Eventuality |

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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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