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title: But certainly it was a great piece of good fortune that he should be… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But certainly it was a great piece of good fortune that he should be able to carry so wise a block of wood along with him in his perilous voyage. Who acts: thing, Jason. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 100

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But certainly it was a great piece of good fortune that he should be able to carry so wise a block of wood along with him in his perilous voyage.

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**Who acts:** thing, Jason · **What happens:** be, carry, voyage · **To what, where:** great piece, good fortune, wise block, perilous voyage

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing, Jason), 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:pg976:26:100
# text = But certainly it was a great piece of good fortune that he should be able to carry so wise a block of wood along with him in his perilous voyage.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
15	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	acl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	block	block	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	along	along	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	perilous	perilous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | thing | a great piece |  |  |  | of good fortune; certainly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | should | Jason | good fortune *not said here* |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **carry** | to-infinitive | Jason *not said here* | a wise block of wood |  | Jason's perilous voyage |  | along Jason | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent block=Value in voyage=Location |
| 4 | **voyage** |  | Jason |  |  |  |  |  | nom voyage «act 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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