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title: Hercules, I suppose, had not grown to his full strength, else he mig… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Hercules, I suppose, had not grown to his full strength, else he might have set her afloat as easily as a little boy launches his boat upon a puddle. Who acts: I, Hercules, little boy. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 3, with its dependency tree and t
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 17

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Hercules, I suppose, had not grown to his full strength, else he might have set her afloat as easily as a little boy launches his boat upon a puddle.

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**Who acts:** I, Hercules, little boy · **What happens:** suppose, not grow, set, launch · **To what, where:** Jason, boat, puddle

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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 (I, Hercules, little boy), 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:pg976:27:17
# text = Hercules, I suppose, had not grown to his full strength, else he might have set her afloat as easily as a little boy launches his boat upon a puddle.
1	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	suppose	suppose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	else	else	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux	_	_
18	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	afloat	afloat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
21	as	as	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	launches	launch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	puddle	puddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suppose** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **grow** | past · perfect | Hercules |  |  |  |  | to Jason's full strength | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **set** | might · perfect · passive |  | Jason |  |  |  | afloat, easily, else *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
| 4 | **launch** | present | a little boy | Jason's boat |  | a puddle |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent boat=Theme upon puddle=Destination |

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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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