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title: "O, daughter of the Talking Oak," cried he, "how shall we set to wor… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "O, daughter of the Talking Oak," cried he, "how shall we set to work to get our vessel into the water?" Who acts: daughter, we. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 21

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"O, daughter of the Talking Oak," cried he, "how shall we set to work to get our vessel into the water?"

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**Who acts:** daughter, we · **What happens:** cry, set, work, get · **To what, where:** Jason, vessel, water · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (daughter, we), 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:pg976:27:21
# text = "O, daughter of the Talking Oak," cried he, "how shall we set to work to get our vessel into the water?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Talking	Talking	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Oak	Oak	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
16	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
23	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | daughter of the Talking Oak | Jason |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **set** *in a quote* | shall | we |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **work** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **get** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | our vessel |  | the water |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vessel=Stimulus |

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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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