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title: And whether she once lived or no, I am convinced that she no longer… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And whether she once lived or no, I am convinced that she no longer survives, and that therefore it is the merest folly to waste our own lives and happiness in seeking her. Who acts: girl, I, that. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, with its depende
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 33

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And whether she once lived or no, I am convinced that she no longer survives, and that therefore it is the merest folly to waste our own lives and happiness in seeking her.

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**Who acts:** girl, I, that · **What happens:** live, be, survive, waste, seek · **To what, where:** merest folly, own lives, girl

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, I, that), 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:pg976:11:33
# text = And whether she once lived or no, I am convinced that she no longer survives, and that therefore it is the merest folly to waste our own lives and happiness in seeking her.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	advmod	_	_
5	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
7	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	11	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	convinced	convinced	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	no	no	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
16	survives	survive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	nsubj	_	_
20	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	merest	mere	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	amod	_	_
25	folly	folly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	waste	waste	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl	_	_
28	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
33	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
34	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
35	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | girl |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | convinced *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **survive** | present | girl |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present | that | the merest folly |  |  |  | therefore *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **waste** | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* | our own lives and happiness |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient |
| 6 | **seek** | gerund | girl *not said here* | girl |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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