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title: It may not be too much to hope that the rest of mankind will by and… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It may not be too much to hope that the rest of mankind will by and by grow as wise and peaceable as these five earth-begrimed warriors, who sprang from the dragon's teeth. Who acts: sense, five begrimed warriors. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, 
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 77

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It may not be too much to hope that the rest of mankind will by and by grow as wise and peaceable as these five earth-begrimed warriors, who sprang from the dragon's teeth.

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**Who acts:** sense, five begrimed warriors · **What happens:** not be, hope, grow, begrime, spring · **To what, where:** teeth

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sense, five begrimed warriors), 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:pg976:13:77
# text = It may not be too much to hope that the rest of mankind will by and by grow as wise and peaceable as these five earth-begrimed warriors, who sprang from the dragon's teeth.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	hope	hope	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	mankind	mankind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	flat	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	peaceable	peaceable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
24	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
25	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
26	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	begrimed	begrime	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	amod	_	_
29	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	's	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **not** **is** | may | sense |  |  |  |  | much *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hope** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **grow** | present |  |  |  |  |  | as wise | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **begrime** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **spring** | past | this five begrimed warriors |  |  | the dragon's teeth |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from tooth=Trajectory |

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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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