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title: But then she considered in her wise little head that there could be… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But then she considered in her wise little head that there could be no possible harm in taking just one gallop on the back of this docile and friendly animal, who would certainly set her down the very instant she desired it. Who acts: Europa, possible harm, docile animal. A sentence of «Tanglewood T
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 40

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But then she considered in her wise little head that there could be no possible harm in taking just one gallop on the back of this docile and friendly animal, who would certainly set her down the very instant she desired it.

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**Who acts:** Europa, possible harm, docile animal · **What happens:** consider, take, set down, desire · **To what, where:** wise little head, one gallop, back, Europa, gallop

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Europa, possible harm, docile animal), 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:pg976:10:40
# text = But then she considered in her wise little head that there could be no possible harm in taking just one gallop on the back of this docile and friendly animal, who would certainly set her down the very instant she desired it.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	considered	consider	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
7	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
15	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
17	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
19	just	just	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	gallop	gallop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
26	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
27	docile	docile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
30	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
33	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	acl:relcl	_	_
36	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	down	down	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	very	very	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	instant	instant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	conj	_	_
41	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	desired	desire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	ccomp	_	_
43	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consider** | past | Europa |  |  | Europa's wise little head | then |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | gerund | no possible harm *not said here* | one gallop |  | the back of this docile animal |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gallop=Theme on back=Destination |
| 3 | **set down** | would | this docile animal | Europa |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient she=Result |
| 4 | **desire** | past | Europa | gallop |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |

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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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