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title: He felt that he could never forgive himself, if this poor feeble cre… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He felt that he could never forgive himself, if this poor feeble creature should come to any harm in attempting to wrestle against the headlong current. Who acts: Jason, feeble creature. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 1, with its dependency tree and
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 55

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He felt that he could never forgive himself, if this poor feeble creature should come to any harm in attempting to wrestle against the headlong current.

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**Who acts:** Jason, feeble creature · **What happens:** feel, not forgive, come, attempt, wrestle · **To what, where:** Jason, harm

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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, feeble creature), 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:pg976:25:55
# text = He felt that he could never forgive himself, if this poor feeble creature should come to any harm in attempting to wrestle against the headlong current.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	forgive	forgive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
8	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
12	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	feeble	feeble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	attempting	attempt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	wrestle	wrestle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	against	against	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	headlong	headlong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	current	current	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | Jason |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **forgive** | could | Jason | Jason |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
| 3 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | should | this feeble creature |  |  | any harm |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to harm=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **attempt** | gerund | this feeble creature *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **wrestle** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | this feeble creature *not said here* |  |  |  |  | against the headlong current | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: 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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