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title: Besides, as you may see for yourself, the river is very boisterous;… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Besides, as you may see for yourself, the river is very boisterous; and if I should chance to stumble, it would sweep both of us away more easily than it has carried off yonder uprooted tree. Who acts: you, river, I. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 1
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 46

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Besides, as you may see for yourself, the river is very boisterous; and if I should chance to stumble, it would sweep both of us away more easily than it has carried off yonder uprooted tree.

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**Who acts:** you, river, I · **What happens:** see, be, chance, stumble, sweep, carry off · **To what, where:** both, river

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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 (you, river, I), 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:pg976:25:46
# text = Besides, as you may see for yourself, the river is very boisterous; and if I should chance to stumble, it would sweep both of us away more easily than it has carried off yonder uprooted tree.
1	Besides	besides	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	boisterous	boisterous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	advcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	stumble	stumble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	sweep	sweep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
27	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nmod	_	_
30	away	away	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
31	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	32	advmod	_	_
32	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
33	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	advcl	_	_
37	off	off	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	_
38	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	uprooted	uproot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	amod	_	_
40	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | may | you |  |  |  |  | for yourself; besides *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | present | the river |  |  |  |  | boisterous *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **chance** *a condition, not said to happen* | should | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **stumble** | to-infinitive | river *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **sweep** | would | river | both |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location both=Theme |
| 6 | **carry off** | present · perfect · passive |  | river |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary tree=Value |
| 7 | **uproot** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | yonder *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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