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title: "Ah, well, then," said the old woman, still with the same cracked vo… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Ah, well, then," said the old woman, still with the same cracked voice, "if that is all your business, you need not be in a very great hurry. Who acts: old woman, that, you. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 42

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"Ah, well, then," said the old woman, still with the same cracked voice, "if that is all your business, you need not be in a very great hurry.

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**Who acts:** old woman, that, you · **What happens:** say, crack, be, not be · **To what, where:** business, great hurry · **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 (old woman, that, you), 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:pg976:25:42
# text = "Ah, well, then," said the old woman, still with the same cracked voice, "if that is all your business, you need not be in a very great hurry.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	well	well	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	still	still	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	cracked	crack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	27	det:predet	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
30	need	need	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	cop	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	very	very	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	hurry	hurry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the old woman |  |  |  | then | with the same cracked voice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **crack** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | that | your business and a great hurry |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  | a great hurry |  |  | tree rules |

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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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