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title: They must have sturdy arms to row, and brave hearts to encounter per… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They must have sturdy arms to row, and brave hearts to encounter perils, or we shall never win the Golden Fleece." Who acts: oars, brave hearts, we. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 102

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They must have sturdy arms to row, and brave hearts to encounter perils, or we shall never win the Golden Fleece."

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**Who acts:** oars, brave hearts, we · **What happens:** have, row, encounter, not win · **To what, where:** sturdy arms, perils, Golden Fleece

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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 (oars, brave hearts, we), 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:pg976:26:102
# text = They must have sturdy arms to row, and brave hearts to encounter perils, or we shall never win the Golden Fleece."
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	sturdy	sturdy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	row	row	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	encounter	encounter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
14	perils	peril	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	Fleece	Fleece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | must | oars *= oar* | sturdy arms |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient |
| 2 | **row** | to-infinitive | oars *= oar* *not said here* | sturdy arms *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **encounter** | to-infinitive | brave hearts | perils |  |  |  |  | vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer peril=Stimulus |
| 4 | **not** **win** | shall | we | the Golden Fleece |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fleece=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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