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title: In memory of this good deed, and as a token of his true heart, the f… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In memory of this good deed, and as a token of his true heart, the fleece of the poor dead ram was miraculously changed to gold, and became one of the most beautiful objects ever seen on earth. Who acts: memory. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 3, wit
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 33

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In memory of this good deed, and as a token of his true heart, the fleece of the poor dead ram was miraculously changed to gold, and became one of the most beautiful objects ever seen on earth.

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**Who acts:** memory · **What happens:** change, become, see · **To what, where:** fleece, memory, beautiful objects, earth

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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 (memory), 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:pg976:27:33
# text = In memory of this good deed, and as a token of his true heart, the fleece of the poor dead ram was miraculously changed to gold, and became one of the most beautiful objects ever seen on earth.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	deed	deed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	token	token	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	fleece	fleece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	ram	ram	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
25	miraculously	miraculously	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
32	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	xcomp	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	36	advmod	_	_
36	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	objects	object	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
38	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	39	advmod	_	_
39	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	acl	_	_
40	on	on	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | past · passive | memory of this good deed *not said here* | the fleece of the poor dead ram |  |  |  | as a token of ram's true heart; to gold; miraculously *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **become** | past |  |  |  |  |  | in memory of this good deed *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in memory=Result |
| 3 | **see** | participle |  | the beautiful objects *not said here* |  | earth | ever |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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