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title: Sweet Fern has learned to read and write, and has put on a jacket an… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Sweet Fern has learned to read and write, and has put on a jacket and pair of pantaloons--all of which improvements I am sorry for. Who acts: Sweet Fern, all. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Wayside. Introductory., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 64

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Sweet Fern has learned to read and write, and has put on a jacket and pair of pantaloons--all of which improvements I am sorry for.

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**Who acts:** Sweet Fern, all · **What happens:** learn, read, write, put, be · **To what, where:** jacket

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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 (Sweet Fern, all), 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:pg976:2:64
# text = Sweet Fern has learned to read and write, and has put on a jacket and pair of pantaloons--all of which improvements I am sorry for.
1	Sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Fern	Fern	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	jacket	jacket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	pantaloons	pantaloon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	24	det	_	_
24	improvements	improvement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | present · perfect | Sweet Fern |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **read** | to-infinitive | Sweet Fern *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **write** | infinitive | Sweet Fern *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **put** | present · perfect | Sweet Fern *not said here* |  |  | a jacket and pair of pantaloons |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on jacket=Destination |
| 5 | **is** | present | all |  |  |  |  | sorry *property* | 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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