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title: Do you imagine that earthly children are to become immortal without… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Do you imagine that earthly children are to become immortal without being tempered to it in the fiercest heat of the fire? Who acts: you, that, fire. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 25

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Do you imagine that earthly children are to become immortal without being tempered to it in the fiercest heat of the fire?

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**Who acts:** you, that, fire · **What happens:** imagine, be, temper, heat · **To what, where:** intelligence, fiercest heat

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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, that, fire), 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:pg976:23:25
# text = Do you imagine that earthly children are to become immortal without being tempered to it in the fiercest heat of the fire?
1	Do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj	_	_
5	earthly	earthly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
10	immortal	immortal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	tempered	temper	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	xcomp	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	fiercest	fierce	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
19	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **imagine** | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | become, immortal *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **temper** | gerund · passive | that *not said here* |  | intelligence | the fiercest heat of the fire |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **heat** |  | the fire |  |  |  |  |  | nom heat «phenomenon 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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