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title: This was very unwise, to be sure; and I hope none of you, my little… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This was very unwise, to be sure; and I hope none of you, my little hearers, will ever follow Jason's example. Who acts: This, I, Jason. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 16

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This was very unwise, to be sure; and I hope none of you, my little hearers, will ever follow Jason's example.

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**Who acts:** This, I, Jason · **What happens:** be, hope, follow, exemplify · **To what, where:** none, example

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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 (This, I, Jason), 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:pg976:25:16
# text = This was very unwise, to be sure; and I hope none of you, my little hearers, will ever follow Jason's example.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	unwise	unwise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
8	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	hope	hope	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	12	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	hearers	hearer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	23	advmod	_	_
23	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
24	Jason	Jason	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | This |  |  |  |  | unwise *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | This *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hope** | present | I | none |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **follow** | future | I *not said here* | Jason's example |  |  | ever |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent example=Theme |
| 5 | **exemplify** |  | Jason |  |  |  |  |  | nom example «cognition transitive»: 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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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