--- title: Yet, in spite of my experience of his free way of handling them, I d… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Yet, in spite of my experience of his free way of handling them, I did not quite see, I confess, how he could have obviated all the difficulties in the way of rendering them presentable to children. Who acts: free way, I, endowment, way. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The W --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/2/41/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Tanglewood Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/) / [The Wayside. Introductory.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/2/) / 41 # Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 41 Yet, in spite of my experience of his free way of handling them, I did not quite see, I confess, how he could have obviated all the difficulties in the way of rendering them presentable to children. **Who acts:** free way, I, endowment, way, my · **What happens:** handle, not see, confess, obviate, render, spite · **To what, where:** advantages, spite, way, experience, free way 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 (free way, I, endowment, way), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg976:2:41 # text = Yet, in spite of my experience of his free way of handling them, I did not quite see, I confess, how he could have obviated all the difficulties in the way of rendering them presentable to children. 1 Yet yet CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 spite spite NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 experience experience NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 12 of of SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 13 handling handle VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 acl _ _ 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 17 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 19 quite quite ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 confess confess VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 29 advmod _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 27 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 29 aux _ _ 29 obviated obviate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 23 conj _ _ 30 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 32 det:predet _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 difficulties difficulty NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl:agent _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 36 of of SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 37 rendering render VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 35 acl _ _ 38 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 presentable presentable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 xcomp _ _ 40 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **handle** | gerund | endowment's free way *not said here* | advantages *= advantage* | | | | | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 2 | **not** **see** | past · do-support | I | | | spite of my experience of endowment's free way | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **confess** | present | I | | | | | | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **obviate** | could · perfect | endowment | | | the way | | | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **render** | gerund | the way *not said here* | advantages *= advantage* | | | | presentable *property* | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 6 | **spite** | | | my experience of endowment's free way | | | | | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient | | 7 | **experience** | | my | endowment's free way | | | | | nom experience «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/2/40/) - next →: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/2/42/) - ↑ back to [The Wayside. 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