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title: A few years will do all that is necessary towards showing him the tr… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: A few years will do all that is necessary towards showing him the truth in both respects. Who acts: few years, that. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Wayside. Introductory., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 53

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A few years will do all that is necessary towards showing him the truth in both respects.

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**Who acts:** few years, that · **What happens:** do, be, show · **To what, where:** truth, dreamer, respects

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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 (few years, that), 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:pg976:2:53
# text = A few years will do all that is necessary towards showing him the truth in both respects.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	csubj	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	towards	towards	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	showing	show	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	respects	respects	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | future | a few years |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | necessary *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **show** | gerund | that *not said here* | the truth | dreamer | both respects |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient truth=Topic |

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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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