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title: Remembering these maxims, the vigorous and beautiful young man knelt… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Remembering these maxims, the vigorous and beautiful young man knelt down, and requested the good dame to mount upon his back. Who acts: vigorous young man. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 57

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Remembering these maxims, the vigorous and beautiful young man knelt down, and requested the good dame to mount upon his back.

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**Who acts:** vigorous young man · **What happens:** remember, kneel down, request, mount · **To what, where:** maxims, good dame, back

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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 (vigorous young man), 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:pg976:25:57
# text = Remembering these maxims, the vigorous and beautiful young man knelt down, and requested the good dame to mount upon his back.
1	Remembering	remember	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	maxims	maxim	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
6	vigorous	vigorous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	knelt	kneel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	down	down	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	requested	request	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	dame	dame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	mount	mount	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
21	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | gerund | the vigorous young man *not said here* | this maxims |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent maxim=Theme |
| 2 | **kneel down** | past | the vigorous young man |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **request** | past | the vigorous young man *not said here* | the good dame |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent dame=Recipient |
| 4 | **mount** | to-infinitive | the vigorous young man *not said here* |  |  | man's back |  |  | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon back=Destination |

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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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