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title: But (what was very strange) the carver found that his hand was guide… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But (what was very strange) the carver found that his hand was guided by some unseen power, and by a skill beyond his own, and that his tools shaped out an image which he had never dreamed of. Who acts: carver, unseen power. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 86

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But (what was very strange) the carver found that his hand was guided by some unseen power, and by a skill beyond his own, and that his tools shaped out an image which he had never dreamed of.

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**Who acts:** carver, unseen power · **What happens:** be, find, guide, shape out, not dream · **To what, where:** hand, tools, image · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (carver, unseen power), 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:pg976:26:86
# text = But (what was very strange) the carver found that his hand was guided by some unseen power, and by a skill beyond his own, and that his tools shaped out an image which he had never dreamed of.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	carver	carver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	guided	guide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	ccomp	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
18	unseen	unseen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
25	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	tools	tool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	shaped	shape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
34	out	out	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
35	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	image	image	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
37	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
39	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
40	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
41	dreamed	dream	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	acl:relcl	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | strange *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | past | the carver |  |  |  |  | by a skill beyond carver's own | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **guide** | past · passive | some unseen power | carver's hand |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 4 | **shape out** | participle · passive |  | carver's tools |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary image=Product |
| 5 | **not** **dream** | past · perfect · passive |  | a image |  |  |  |  | vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: subject=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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