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title: When the first poet or romancer told these marvellous legends (such… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When the first poet or romancer told these marvellous legends (such is Eustace Bright's opinion), it was still the Golden Age. Who acts: first poet, opinion. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Wayside. Introductory., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 49

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When the first poet or romancer told these marvellous legends (such is Eustace Bright's opinion), it was still the Golden Age.

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**Who acts:** first poet, opinion · **What happens:** tell, be · **To what, where:** marvellous legends, such Eustace, Golden Age · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (first poet, opinion), 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:pg976:2:49
# text = When the first poet or romancer told these marvellous legends (such is Eustace Bright's opinion), it was still the Golden Age.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	romancer	romancer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
9	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	Eustace	Eustace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
15	Bright	Bright	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
22	still	still	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	Age	Age	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the first poet or romancer | this marvellous legends |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent legend=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | such Eustace |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | opinion | the Golden Age |  |  | still |  | tree rules |

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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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