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title: Had you left him to my care, he would have grown up like a child of… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Had you left him to my care, he would have grown up like a child of celestial birth, endowed with superhuman strength and intelligence, and would have lived forever. Who acts: you, Demophoon, my. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, with its depend
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 24

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Had you left him to my care, he would have grown up like a child of celestial birth, endowed with superhuman strength and intelligence, and would have lived forever.

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**Who acts:** you, Demophoon, my · **What happens:** leave, grow up, endow, live, care · **To what, where:** Demophoon, care, child

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Demophoon, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg976:1719`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg976:23:24
# text = Had you left him to my care, he would have grown up like a child of celestial birth, endowed with superhuman strength and intelligence, and would have lived forever.
1	Had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux	_	_
12	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	celestial	celestial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	endowed	endow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	superhuman	superhuman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	intelligence	intelligence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux	_	_
31	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
32	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past · perfect | you | Demophoon | my care |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to care=Recipient |
| 2 | **grow up** | would · perfect | Demophoon |  |  |  |  | like a child of celestial birth | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **endow** | participle |  | a child of celestial birth *not said here* |  |  |  | with superhuman strength and intelligence | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with strength=Theme |
| 4 | **live** | would · perfect | Demophoon *not said here* |  |  |  |  | forever *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **care** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom care «act intransitive»: 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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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