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title: Not, as Eustace hinted, that there was any real necessity for my ser… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Not, as Eustace hinted, that there was any real necessity for my services as introducer, inasmuch as his own name had become established in some good degree of favor with the literary world. Who acts: Eustace, real necessity, own name, my. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 36

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Not, as Eustace hinted, that there was any real necessity for my services as introducer, inasmuch as his own name had become established in some good degree of favor with the literary world.

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**Who acts:** Eustace, real necessity, own name, my · **What happens:** not hint, be, become, establish, service, name · **To what, where:** good degree

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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 (Eustace, real necessity, own name, 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:pg976:2:36
# text = Not, as Eustace hinted, that there was any real necessity for my services as introducer, inasmuch as his own name had become established in some good degree of favor with the literary world.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	Eustace	Eustace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	hinted	hint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
9	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
10	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
11	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	necessity	necessity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	services	service	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	introducer	introducer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	inasmuch	inasmuch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
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	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
26	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	xcomp	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	det	_	_
29	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	degree	degree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	favor	favor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	literary	literary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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** **hint** *speech: other* | past | Eustace |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **be** | past | any real necessity for my services as introducer and inasmuch |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **become** | past · perfect | Eustace's own name |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **establish** | participle | Eustace's own name *not said here* |  |  | some good degree of favor |  | with the literary world | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent with world=Source |
| 5 | **service** |  | my |  |  |  |  | as introducer and inasmuch | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent as=obl |
| 6 | **name** |  | Eustace |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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