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title: As he had no reason to complain of the reception of that erudite wor… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As he had no reason to complain of the reception of that erudite work by the public, he was now disposed to retain me in a similar position with respect to the present volume, which he entitled TANGLEWOOD TALES. Who acts: Mr.. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Wayside. Int
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 35

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As he had no reason to complain of the reception of that erudite work by the public, he was now disposed to retain me in a similar position with respect to the present volume, which he entitled TANGLEWOOD TALES.

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**Who acts:** Mr. · **What happens:** have, complain, dispose, retain, entitle, receive · **To what, where:** reason, Mr., me, similar position, present volume, erudite work

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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 (Mr.), 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:pg976:2:35
# text = As he had no reason to complain of the reception of that erudite work by the public, he was now disposed to retain me in a similar position with respect to the present volume, which he entitled TANGLEWOOD TALES.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	complain	complain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	reception	reception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj	_	_
13	erudite	erudite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	public	public	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
21	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
22	disposed	dispose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	retain	retain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	volume	volume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	obj	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	entitled	entitle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl:relcl	_	_
40	TANGLEWOOD	TANGLEWOOD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	TALES	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Mr. | no reason |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient |
| 2 | **complain** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Mr. *not said here* | no reason *not said here* |  |  |  | of the reception of erudite work; by the public | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **dispose** | past · passive |  | Mr. |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **retain** | to-infinitive |  | me |  | a similar position with respect |  | to the present volume | tree rules |
| 5 | **entitle** | past | Mr. | the present volume |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **receive** |  |  | erudite work |  |  |  |  | nom reception «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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