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title: There was a fair prospect that they would meet with plenty of such a… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There was a fair prospect that they would meet with plenty of such adventures before finding the Golden Fleece. Who acts: fair prospect, dangers. 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 109

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There was a fair prospect that they would meet with plenty of such adventures before finding the Golden Fleece.

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**Who acts:** fair prospect, dangers · **What happens:** be, meet, find · **To what, where:** fair prospect, 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 (fair prospect, dangers), 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:pg976:26:109
# text = There was a fair prospect that they would meet with plenty of such adventures before finding the Golden Fleece.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	prospect	prospect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Fleece	Fleece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a fair prospect |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **meet** | would | dangers *= danger* | a fair prospect *not said here* |  |  |  | with plenty of such adventures | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent prospect=Theme with plenty=Instrument |
| 3 | **find** | gerund | dangers *= danger* *not said here* | the Golden Fleece |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fleece=Topic |

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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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