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title: But that would only delay you, and perhaps hinder you from finding d… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But that would only delay you, and perhaps hinder you from finding dear little Europa, after all your pains and trouble. Who acts: that, your. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 59

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But that would only delay you, and perhaps hinder you from finding dear little Europa, after all your pains and trouble.

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**Who acts:** that, your · **What happens:** delay, hinder, find, pain · **To what, where:** you, dear little Europa

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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 (that, your), 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:pg976:11:59
# text = But that would only delay you, and perhaps hinder you from finding dear little Europa, after all your pains and trouble.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	delay	delay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	hinder	hinder	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
14	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Europa	Europa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	after	after	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	21	det:predet	_	_
20	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	pains	pain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **delay** | would | that | you |  |  |  |  | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent you=Source |
| 2 | **hinder** | present | that *not said here* | you |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer you=Eventuality |
| 3 | **find** | gerund | that *not said here* | dear little Europa |  |  | after your pains and trouble |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent europa=Topic |
| 4 | **pain** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom pain «state 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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