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title: He became a very good harper, I suppose, and skilful in the use of w… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He became a very good harper, I suppose, and skilful in the use of weapons, and tolerably acquainted with herbs and other doctor's stuff, and, above all, an admirable horseman; for, in teaching young people to ride, the good Chiron must have been without a rival among schoolmasters. Who acts: Jason,
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 14

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He became a very good harper, I suppose, and skilful in the use of weapons, and tolerably acquainted with herbs and other doctor's stuff, and, above all, an admirable horseman; for, in teaching young people to ride, the good Chiron must have been without a rival among schoolmasters.

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**Who acts:** Jason, I, all, good Chiron · **What happens:** become, suppose, horseman, teach, ride, be · **To what, where:** good harper, young people, weapons

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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 (Jason, I, all, good 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:pg976:25:14
# text = He became a very good harper, I suppose, and skilful in the use of weapons, and tolerably acquainted with herbs and other doctor's stuff, and, above all, an admirable horseman; for, in teaching young people to ride, the good Chiron must have been without a rival among schoolmasters.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	harper	harper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	suppose	suppose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	skilful	skilful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	ccomp	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	weapons	weapon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	tolerably	tolerably	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	acquainted	acquainted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	herbs	herb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	above	above	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	37	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	admirable	admirable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	horseman	horseman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
42	teaching	teach	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
43	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obj	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	Chiron	chiron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nsubj	_	_
51	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
52	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	56	aux	_	_
53	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	56	cop	_	_
54	without	without	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	rival	rival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	xcomp	_	_
57	among	among	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	schoolmasters	schoolmaster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | Jason | a good harper |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **suppose** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **horseman** |  | all |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **teach** *speech: other* | gerund | Jason *not said here* |  | young people |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient |
| 5 | **ride** | to-infinitive | Jason *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | must · perfect | the good Chiron |  |  |  |  | without a rival; among schoolmasters | tree rules |
| 7 | **use** |  |  | weapons |  |  |  |  | nom use «act transitive»: of=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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