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title: As soon as this was done, however, he could not help looking rather… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as this was done, however, he could not help looking rather despondently at his bare foot, with only a remnant of the golden string of the sandal clinging round his ankle. Who acts: Oak, sandal. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 1, with its dep
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 82

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As soon as this was done, however, he could not help looking rather despondently at his bare foot, with only a remnant of the golden string of the sandal clinging round his ankle.

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**Who acts:** Oak, sandal · **What happens:** do, not help, look, cling · **To what, where:** this

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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 (Oak, sandal), 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:pg976:25:82
# text = As soon as this was done, however, he could not help looking rather despondently at his bare foot, with only a remnant of the golden string of the sandal clinging round his ankle.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	however	however	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	xcomp	_	_
15	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	despondently	despondently	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	only	only	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	remnant	remnant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	string	string	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	sandal	sandal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	clinging	cling	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	acl	_	_
34	round	round	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	ankle	ankle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **do** | past · passive |  | this |  |  |  | however *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **help** | could | Oak |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **look** *not said to happen* | gerund | Oak *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a remnant of the golden string of the sandal; at Oak's bare foot; despondently *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at foot=Theme |
| 4 | **cling** | gerund | the sandal *not said here* |  |  |  |  | round Oak's ankle | vn cling-22.5 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |

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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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