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title: And, adding a grievous contumely to the wrong already done us, the m… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And, adding a grievous contumely to the wrong already done us, the miscreant has now fallen asleep as quietly as if nothing were to be dreaded from our wrath! Who acts: adding, miscreant. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 3, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 8

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And, adding a grievous contumely to the wrong already done us, the miscreant has now fallen asleep as quietly as if nothing were to be dreaded from our wrath!

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**Who acts:** adding, miscreant · **What happens:** add, do, fall, dread · **To what, where:** grievous contumely, us, nothing, wrath

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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 (adding, miscreant), 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:pg976:9:8
# text = And, adding a grievous contumely to the wrong already done us, the miscreant has now fallen asleep as quietly as if nothing were to be dreaded from our wrath!
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	adding	add	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	csubj:pass	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	grievous	grievous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	contumely	contumely	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	_
10	already	already	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	miscreant	miscreant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
18	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
19	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	as	as	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
23	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
24	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	dreaded	dread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	wrath	wrath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | a grievous contumely |  |  |  | to the wrong | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent contumely=Patient to wrong=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **do** | participle | adding |  | us |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Eventuality |
| 3 | **fall** | present · perfect | the miscreant |  |  |  | now | asleep, quietly *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **dread** | past · passive |  | nothing |  | our wrath |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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