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title: You never met with better fortune than in losing that sandal. — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: You never met with better fortune than in losing that sandal. Who acts: You. 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 77

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You never met with better fortune than in losing that sandal.

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** not meet, lose · **To what, where:** sandal

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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), 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:pg976:25:77
# text = You never met with better fortune than in losing that sandal.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
10	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	sandal	sandal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **meet** | past | You |  |  |  |  | with better fortune | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with fortune=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **lose** | gerund | You *not said here* | that sandal |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sandal=Eventuality |

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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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