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title: Or is he afraid of wetting his fine golden-stringed sandals? — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Or is he afraid of wetting his fine golden-stringed sandals? Who acts: 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 32

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Or is he afraid of wetting his fine golden-stringed sandals?

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**Who acts:** Jason · **What happens:** be, wet · **To what, where:** fine stringed sandals

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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), 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:pg976:25:32
# text = Or is he afraid of wetting his fine golden-stringed sandals?
1	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	wetting	wet	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
8	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
9	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	stringed	stringed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	sandals	sandal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Jason |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **wet** | gerund | Jason *not said here* | Jason's fine stringed sandals |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sandal=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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