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title: "You will get a handsomer pair of sandals by and by," said the old w… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "You will get a handsomer pair of sandals by and by," said the old woman, with a kindly look out of her beautiful brown eyes. " Who acts: You, old woman. 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 83

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"You will get a handsomer pair of sandals by and by," said the old woman, with a kindly look out of her beautiful brown eyes. "

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**Who acts:** You, old woman · **What happens:** get, say, look out · **To what, where:** handsomer pair, beautiful brown eyes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, old woman), 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:pg976:25:83
# text = "You will get a handsomer pair of sandals by and by," said the old woman, with a kindly look out of her beautiful brown eyes. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	handsomer	handsome	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	sandals	sandal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
27	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** *in a quote* | future | You | a handsomer pair of sandals |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pair=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the old woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **look out** | infinitive |  | briskness's beautiful brown eyes |  |  |  | kindly *property* | tree rules |

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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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