--- title: There was hardly a hope, or a possibility, that any young man who sh… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: There was hardly a hope, or a possibility, that any young man who should undertake this voyage would either succeed in obtaining the Golden Fleece, or would survive to return home, and tell of the perils he had run. Who acts: hope, young man, man. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hope, young man, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg976:26:51 # text = There was hardly a hope, or a possibility, that any young man who should undertake this voyage would either succeed in obtaining the Golden Fleece, or would survive to return home, and tell of the perils he had run. 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 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 hope hope NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 possibility possibility NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 11 that that SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 12 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 14 det _ _ 13 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 15 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 16 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 undertake undertake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 acl:relcl _ _ 18 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 19 det _ _ 19 voyage voyage NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 either either ADV RB PronType=Ind 22 advmod _ _ 22 succeed succeed VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 23 in in SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 24 obtaining obtain VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 Golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 Fleece Fleece PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 or or CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 survive survive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 return return VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 home home ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 perils peril NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ _ 41 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 42 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 43 run run VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 37 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | a hope or a possibility | | | there | | hardly *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **undertake** | should | any young man | this voyage | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voyage=Eventuality | | 3 | **succeed** | would | any young man | | | | | either *property* | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **obtain** | gerund | any young man *not said here* | the Golden Fleece | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fleece=Theme | | 5 | **survive** | would | any young man *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **return** | to-infinitive | any young man *not said here* | | | | | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | any young man *not said here* | | | | | of the perils | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **run** | past · perfect | man | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/26/50/) - next →: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/26/52/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Fleece., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/26/)