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title: Many of these brave fellows had been educated by Chiron, the four-fo… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Many of these brave fellows had been educated by Chiron, the four-footed pedagogue, and were therefore old schoolmates of Jason, and knew him to be a lad of spirit. Who acts: Chiron. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 3, with its dependency tree and the
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 1

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Many of these brave fellows had been educated by Chiron, the four-footed pedagogue, and were therefore old schoolmates of Jason, and knew him to be a lad of spirit.

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**Who acts:** Chiron · **What happens:** educate, be, know · **To what, where:** Many, old schoolmates, Jason, lad

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chiron), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg976:2023`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg976:27:1
# text = Many of these brave fellows had been educated by Chiron, the four-footed pedagogue, and were therefore old schoolmates of Jason, and knew him to be a lad of spirit.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	fellows	fellow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	educated	educate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Chiron	Chiron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl:agent	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	compound	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
15	footed	footed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	pedagogue	pedagogue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	schoolmates	schoolmate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Jason	Jason	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	cop	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	xcomp	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **educate** *speech: other* | past · perfect · passive | Chiron | Many of this brave fellows |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Chiron *not said here* | old schoolmates |  |  |  | of Jason; therefore *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** | past | Chiron *not said here* | Jason |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is a** | to-infinitive | Chiron *not said here* | a lad |  |  |  | of spirit | 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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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