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title: And, in fact, considering what a great deed was to be done, could an… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And, in fact, considering what a great deed was to be done, could any advice be wiser than this which Jason received from the figure-head of his vessel? Who acts: fact, advice. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 104

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And, in fact, considering what a great deed was to be done, could any advice be wiser than this which Jason received from the figure-head of his vessel?

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**Who acts:** fact, advice · **What happens:** consider, do, be, receive · **To what, where:** great deed, fact, figure head

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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 (fact, advice), 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:pg976:26:104
# text = And, in fact, considering what a great deed was to be done, could any advice be wiser than this which Jason received from the figure-head of his vessel?
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	considering	consider	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	obj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	deed	deed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
17	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
20	wiser	wise	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
21	than	than	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	obl	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	Jason	Jason	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	20	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 | **consider** | gerund | fact *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | past · passive |  | a great deed |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | could | any advice |  |  | fact |  | than this; wise *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **receive** | past |  |  |  | the figure head of Jason's vessel |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from head=Source |

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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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