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title: Your hearts seem to me so exceedingly great, that, upon my honor, I… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Your hearts seem to me so exceedingly great, that, upon my honor, I marvel how your small bodies can contain them. Who acts: hearts, I, small bodies, my. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 74

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Your hearts seem to me so exceedingly great, that, upon my honor, I marvel how your small bodies can contain them.

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**Who acts:** hearts, I, small bodies, my · **What happens:** seem, marvel, contain, honor · **To what, where:** me, hearts

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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 (hearts, I, small bodies, my), 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:pg976:9:74
# text = Your hearts seem to me so exceedingly great, that, upon my honor, I marvel how your small bodies can contain them.
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	honor	honor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	marvel	marvel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	contain	contain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | present | Your hearts |  | me |  |  | upon my honor; great *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **marvel** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **contain** | can | your small bodies | hearts *= heart* |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme |
| 4 | **honor** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom honor «communication transitive»: poss=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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