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title: Be that as it may, it has always been told for a fact (and always wi… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Be that as it may, it has always been told for a fact (and always will be told, as long as the world lasts), that Chiron, with the head of a schoolmaster, had the body and legs of a horse. Who acts: that, world, Chiron. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., par
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 10

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Be that as it may, it has always been told for a fact (and always will be told, as long as the world lasts), that Chiron, with the head of a schoolmaster, had the body and legs of a horse.

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**Who acts:** that, world, Chiron · **What happens:** be, tell, last, have · **To what, where:** idea, fact, body · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, world, Chiron), 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:pg976:25:10
# text = Be that as it may, it has always been told for a fact (and always will be told, as long as the world lasts), that Chiron, with the head of a schoolmaster, had the body and legs of a horse.
1	Be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	nsubj	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	11	advmod	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	20	advmod	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	as	as	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	lasts	last	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
31	Chiron	Chiron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	schoolmaster	schoolmaster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
40	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	conj	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | infinitive | that |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · perfect · passive |  | idea |  |  |  | for a fact; always *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | future · passive |  | a fact *not said here* |  |  |  | always, long *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V» |
| 4 | **last** | present | the world |  |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | past | Chiron | the body and legs of a horse |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=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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