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title: But to test how much you have profited under so excellent a teacher,… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But to test how much you have profited under so excellent a teacher, will you allow me to ask you a single question?" Who acts: you. 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 37

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But to test how much you have profited under so excellent a teacher, will you allow me to ask you a single question?"

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** test, profit, allow, ask · **To what, where:** much, me, single question, you

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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 (you), 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:pg976:26:37
# text = But to test how much you have profited under so excellent a teacher, will you allow me to ask you a single question?"
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	test	test	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obj	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	profited	profit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	under	under	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	excellent	excellent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	iobj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **test** | to-infinitive |  | much |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme |
| 2 | **profit** | present · perfect | you |  |  |  |  | excellent *property* | vn benefit-72.2 «NP V»: agent=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **allow** | future | you |  | me |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer i=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a single question | you |  |  |  | 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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