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title: But the briskness of her tone encouraged the young man; and, besides… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But the briskness of her tone encouraged the young man; and, besides, he had never in his life felt so vigorous and mighty as since taking this old woman on his back. Who acts: briskness, Oak. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 1, with its dependency tr
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 80

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But the briskness of her tone encouraged the young man; and, besides, he had never in his life felt so vigorous and mighty as since taking this old woman on his back.

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**Who acts:** briskness, Oak · **What happens:** encourage, not feel, take, intonate · **To what, where:** young man, old woman, 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 (briskness, Oak), 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:pg976:25:80
# text = But the briskness of her tone encouraged the young man; and, besides, he had never in his life felt so vigorous and mighty as since taking this old woman on his back.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	briskness	briskness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	encouraged	encourage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	besides	besides	INTJ	UH	_	22	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
18	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	vigorous	vigorous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
30	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
31	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **encourage** | past | the briskness of briskness's tone | the young man |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **feel** | past | Oak |  |  |  |  | vigorous *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **take** | gerund | Oak *not said here* | this old woman |  | Oak's back |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent woman=Theme on back=Destination |
| 4 | **intonate** |  | briskness |  |  |  |  |  | nom tone «communication transitive»: poss=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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