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title: I do not know what he means to do with himself after leaving college… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I do not know what he means to do with himself after leaving college, but trust that, by dabbling so early with the dangerous and seductive business of authorship, he will not be tempted to become an author by profession. Who acts: I, Mr.. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 72

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I do not know what he means to do with himself after leaving college, but trust that, by dabbling so early with the dangerous and seductive business of authorship, he will not be tempted to become an author by profession.

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**Who acts:** I, Mr. · **What happens:** not know, mean, do, leave, dabble, not tempt · **To what, where:** college, Mr., author · **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 (I, Mr.), 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:pg976:2:72
# text = I do not know what he means to do with himself after leaving college, but trust that, by dabbling so early with the dangerous and seductive business of authorship, he will not be tempted to become an author by profession.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obl	_	_
12	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
14	college	college	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	dabbling	dabble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
26	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	seductive	seductive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	_
29	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	authorship	authorship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
36	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	tempted	tempt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	advcl	_	_
40	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	author	author	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	xcomp	_	_
42	by	by	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	profession	profession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **know** | present · do-support | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **mean** | present | Mr. |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with Mr. | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **leave** | gerund |  | college |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent college=Theme |
| 5 | **dabble** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with the dangerous business of authorship; early *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **tempt** | future · passive |  | Mr. |  |  |  | trust *obl* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |
| 7 | **become** | to-infinitive |  | a author by profession |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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