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title: I let the youthful author talk as much and as extravagantly as he pl… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I let the youthful author talk as much and as extravagantly as he pleased, and was glad to see him commencing life with such confidence in himself and his performances. Who acts: I, dreamer. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Wayside. Introductory., with its dependency tree
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 52

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I let the youthful author talk as much and as extravagantly as he pleased, and was glad to see him commencing life with such confidence in himself and his performances.

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**Who acts:** I, dreamer · **What happens:** let, be, see, commence, perform · **To what, where:** youthful author talk, dreamer, life

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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 (I, dreamer), 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:pg976:2:52
# text = I let the youthful author talk as much and as extravagantly as he pleased, and was glad to see him commencing life with such confidence in himself and his performances.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	youthful	youthful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	author	author	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	as	as	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	much	much	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	as	as	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	extravagantly	extravagantly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	commencing	commence	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	xcomp	_	_
23	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	confidence	confidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	26	nmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	performances	performance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **let** | past | I | the youthful author talk |  |  |  | extravagantly *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talk=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive |  | dreamer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **commence** | gerund | dreamer *not said here* | life |  |  |  | with such confidence in dreamer | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality with confidence=Subeventuality |
| 5 | **perform** |  | dreamer |  |  |  |  |  | nom performance «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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