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title: The classically learned Mr. Pringle, too, had listened to two or thr… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The classically learned Mr. Pringle, too, had listened to two or three of the tales, and censured them even more bitterly than he did THE THREE GOLDEN APPLES; so that, what with praise, and what with criticism, Eustace Bright thinks that there is good hope of at least as much success with the public
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 58

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The classically learned Mr. Pringle, too, had listened to two or three of the tales, and censured them even more bitterly than he did THE THREE GOLDEN APPLES; so that, what with praise, and what with criticism, Eustace Bright thinks that there is good hope of at least as much success with the public as in the case of the "WonderBook."

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**Who acts:** Pringle, Eustace Bright, good hope, much success · **What happens:** learn, listen, censure, do, think, be · **To what, where:** Pringle, tales, THREE GOLDEN APPLES · **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 (Pringle, Eustace Bright, good hope, much success), 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:pg976:2:58
# text = The classically learned Mr. Pringle, too, had listened to two or three of the tales, and censured them even more bitterly than he did THE THREE GOLDEN APPLES; so that, what with praise, and what with criticism, Eustace Bright thinks that there is good hope of at least as much success with the public as in the case of the "WonderBook."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	classically	classically	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	learned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:desc	_	_
5	Pringle	Pringle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	listened	listen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	censured	censure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	even	even	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	24	advmod	_	_
24	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
28	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	THREE	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
30	GOLDEN	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	APPLES	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
33	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	34	appos	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	praise	praise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	parataxis	_	_
42	with	with	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	criticism	criticism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
45	Eustace	Eustace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	Bright	Bright	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	47	nsubj	_	_
47	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	acl:relcl	_	_
48	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
49	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	50	expl	_	_
50	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	ccomp	_	_
51	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
54	at	at	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	58	nmod	_	_
56	as	as	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	success	success	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	_
59	with	with	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	nmod	_	_
62	as	as	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
63	in	in	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
64	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	65	det	_	_
65	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	obl	_	_
66	of	of	ADP	IN	_	69	case	_	_
67	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	69	det	_	_
68	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	69	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	WonderBook	WonderBook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	65	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	41	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | past |  | Pringle  Mr. |  |  |  | classically *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **listen** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | to two | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to two=Theme |
| 3 | **censure** | past |  | tales *= tale* |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **do** | past | Pringle | the THREE GOLDEN APPLES |  |  |  | bitterly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Eventuality |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | present | Eustace Bright |  |  |  |  | with criticism | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **be** | present | good hope of much success at least with the public |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **hope** |  | much success at least with the public |  |  |  |  |  | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=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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