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title: He had now run up from Boston by the noon train, partly impelled by… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He had now run up from Boston by the noon train, partly impelled by the friendly regard with which he is pleased to honor me, and partly, as I soon found, on a matter of literary business. Who acts: remedy, I, literary business. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Wayside. I
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 3

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He had now run up from Boston by the noon train, partly impelled by the friendly regard with which he is pleased to honor me, and partly, as I soon found, on a matter of literary business.

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**Who acts:** remedy, I, literary business · **What happens:** run up, impel, be, honor, find, matter · **To what, where:** noon train, me, matter

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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 (remedy, I, literary business), 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:pg976:2:3
# text = He had now run up from Boston by the noon train, partly impelled by the friendly regard with which he is pleased to honor me, and partly, as I soon found, on a matter of literary business.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	run	run	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Boston	Boston	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl:agent	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	partly	partly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	impelled	impel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	regard	regard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obl	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	acl:relcl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	honor	honor	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	partly	partly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	34	advmod	_	_
34	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	literary	literary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run up** | past · perfect | remedy |  |  |  | now | by the noon train; partly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by train=Trajectory |
| 2 | **impel** | participle |  | the noon train *not said here* |  |  |  | by the friendly regard; partly *property* | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | remedy |  |  |  |  | with the friendly regard; pleased *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **honor** | to-infinitive | remedy *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 5 | **find** | past | I |  |  | a matter of literary business |  | soon *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **matter** |  | literary business |  |  |  |  |  | nom matter «cognition 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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