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title: As for Mr. Bright himself, he is now in his senior year at Williams… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As for Mr. Bright himself, he is now in his senior year at Williams College, and has a prospect of graduating with some degree of honorable distinction at the next Commencement. Who acts: Mr., prospect. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Wayside. Introductory., with its dep
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 70

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As for Mr. Bright himself, he is now in his senior year at Williams College, and has a prospect of graduating with some degree of honorable distinction at the next Commencement.

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**Who acts:** Mr., prospect · **What happens:** be, have, graduate · **To what, where:** Williams College, prospect, next Commencement

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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 (Mr., prospect), 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:pg976:2:70
# text = As for Mr. Bright himself, he is now in his senior year at Williams College, and has a prospect of graduating with some degree of honorable distinction at the next Commencement.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:desc	_	_
4	Bright	Bright	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	19	obl	_	_
5	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
9	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	senior	senior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Williams	Williams	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	College	College	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	prospect	prospect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	graduating	graduate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
26	degree	degree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	honorable	honorable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	distinction	distinction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	Commencement	commencement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	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 | Mr. |  |  | Williams College | in Mr.'s senior year; now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present |  | a prospect |  |  |  | as Bright  Mr.  Mr. | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prospect=Patient |
| 3 | **graduate** | gerund | a prospect *not said here* |  |  | the next Commencement |  | with some degree of honorable distinction | 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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