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description: But, as he was naturally a bold and hard-hearted man, he soon took courage, and began to consider in what way he might rid himself of this terrible one-sandaled stranger. Who acts: king, bold hearted man. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 2, with its d
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 28

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But, as he was naturally a bold and hard-hearted man, he soon took courage, and began to consider in what way he might rid himself of this terrible one-sandaled stranger.

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**Who acts:** king, bold hearted man · **What happens:** be, take, begin, consider, rid, sandal · **To what, where:** bold hearted man, courage, way, king

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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 (king, bold hearted man), 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:pg976:26:28
# text = But, as he was naturally a bold and hard-hearted man, he soon took courage, and began to consider in what way he might rid himself of this terrible one-sandaled stranger.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
6	naturally	naturally	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
8	bold	bold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	hearted	hearted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
17	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	consider	consider	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	26	nsubj	_	_
26	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	rid	rid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	acl:relcl	_	_
30	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	29	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
32	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	37	nsubj	_	_
33	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
34	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	sandaled	sandal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	amod	_	_
37	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | king | a bold hearted man |  |  |  | naturally *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | past | a bold hearted man | courage |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme |
| 3 | **begin** | past | a bold hearted man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **consider** | to-infinitive | a bold hearted man *not said here* |  |  | way |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **rid** | might | king | king |  |  |  | of terrible sandaled stranger | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Source of stranger=Theme |
| 6 | **sandal** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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