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title: Thus the stories (not by any strained effort of the narrator's, but… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus the stories (not by any strained effort of the narrator's, but in harmony with their inherent germ) transform themselves, and re-assume the shapes which they might be supposed to possess in the pure childhood of the world. Who acts: stories. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthor
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 48

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Thus the stories (not by any strained effort of the narrator's, but in harmony with their inherent germ) transform themselves, and re-assume the shapes which they might be supposed to possess in the pure childhood of the world.

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**Who acts:** stories · **What happens:** strain, transform, re-assume, suppose, possess · **To what, where:** stories, shapes, pure childhood

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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 (stories), 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:pg976:2:48
# text = Thus the stories (not by any strained effort of the narrator's, but in harmony with their inherent germ) transform themselves, and re-assume the shapes which they might be supposed to possess in the pure childhood of the world.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
8	strained	strain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	effort	effort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	narrator	narrator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	harmony	harmony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	inherent	inherent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	germ	germ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
23	transform	transform	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	re-assume	re-assume	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	shapes	shape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl:relcl	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	possess	possess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	childhood	childhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strain** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **transform** | present | the stories | stories *= story* |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient |
| 3 | **re-assume** | infinitive | the stories *not said here* | the shapes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **suppose** | might · passive |  | the shapes |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 5 | **possess** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the pure childhood of the world |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |

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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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