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title: Meanwhile, it is but right to say, he does really appear to have ove… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile, it is but right to say, he does really appear to have overcome the moral objections against these fables, although at the expense of such liberties with their structure as must be left to plead their own excuse, without any help from me. Who acts: it, dreamer, structure, liberties. A sent
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 54

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Meanwhile, it is but right to say, he does really appear to have overcome the moral objections against these fables, although at the expense of such liberties with their structure as must be left to plead their own excuse, without any help from me.

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**Who acts:** it, dreamer, structure, liberties · **What happens:** be, say, appear, overcome, leave, plead · **To what, where:** expense, moral objections, structure, own excuse · **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 (it, dreamer, structure, liberties), 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:pg976:2:54
# text = Meanwhile, it is but right to say, he does really appear to have overcome the moral objections against these fables, although at the expense of such liberties with their structure as must be left to plead their own excuse, without any help from me.
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	really	really	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	appear	appear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux	_	_
16	overcome	overcome	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	moral	moral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	objections	objection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
20	against	against	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	fables	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	expense	expense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	liberties	liberty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	structure	structure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
34	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl:relcl	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	plead	plead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	xcomp	_	_
40	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
41	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	excuse	excuse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	without	without	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	46	det	_	_
46	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	_
47	from	from	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | meanwhile, right *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **appear** | present · do-support | dreamer |  |  | the expense of such liberties with liberties's structure |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at expense=Location |
| 4 | **overcome** | to-infinitive · perfect | dreamer *not said here* | the moral objections |  |  |  | against this fables | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot objection=Theme |
| 5 | **leave** | must · passive |  | liberties's structure *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **plead** *speech: request* | to-infinitive | liberties's structure *not said here* | liberties's own excuse and any help from me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **excuse** |  | liberties *= liberty* |  |  |  |  |  | nom excuse «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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