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title: This showed some intelligence in the oak; else how should it have kn… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This showed some intelligence in the oak; else how should it have known that any such person existed? Who acts: This, such person. 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 75

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This showed some intelligence in the oak; else how should it have known that any such person existed?

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**Who acts:** This, such person · **What happens:** show, know, exist · **To what, where:** intelligence

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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 (This, such person), 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:pg976:26:75
# text = This showed some intelligence in the oak; else how should it have known that any such person existed?
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	intelligence	intelligence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
9	else	else	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
10	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
11	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux	_	_
14	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
17	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	existed	exist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	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 | **show** | past | This | some intelligence |  |  |  | in the oak | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent intelligence=Patient in oak=Topic |
| 2 | **know** | should · perfect · passive |  | intelligence |  |  |  | else *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **exist** | participle | any such person |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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