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title: I know from my own experience, that an author's last work is always… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I know from my own experience, that an author's last work is always his best one, in his own estimate, until it quite loses the red heat of composition. Who acts: I, last work, work, my. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Wayside. Introductory., with its dependency tree and
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 28

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I know from my own experience, that an author's last work is always his best one, in his own estimate, until it quite loses the red heat of composition.

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**Who acts:** I, last work, work, my, author, Periwinkle · **What happens:** know, be, lose, experience, work, estimate · **To what, where:** own experience, best one, red heat

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Wayside. Introductory.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, last work, work, my), 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:pg976:2:28
# text = I know from my own experience, that an author's last work is always his best one, in his own estimate, until it quite loses the red heat of composition.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	experience	experience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	author	author	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
15	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	18	advmod	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
18	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	estimate	estimate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	loses	lose	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	composition	composition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **know** | present | I |  |  | my own experience |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a author's last work | Periwinkle's best one and Periwinkle's own estimate |  |  |  | always *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **lose** | present | work | the red heat of composition |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Eventuality |
| 4 | **experience** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom experience «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **work** |  | a author |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **estimate** |  | Periwinkle |  |  |  |  |  | nom estimate «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **heat** |  | composition |  |  |  |  |  | nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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