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description: "I see some very tall objects," answered Jason; "but they are at such a distance that I cannot distinctly make out what they are. Who acts: Jason, objects. 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 41

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"I see some very tall objects," answered Jason; "but they are at such a distance that I cannot distinctly make out what they are.

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**Who acts:** Jason, objects · **What happens:** see, answer, be, not make out · **To what, where:** tall objects, distance · **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 (Jason, objects), 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:pg976:27:41
# text = "I see some very tall objects," answered Jason; "but they are at such a distance that I cannot distinctly make out what they are.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	objects	object	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
10	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Jason	Jason	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	20	det:predet	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obj	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
25	distinctly	distinctly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl:relcl	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	26	obj	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
30	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **see** *in a quote* | present | Jason | some tall objects |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer object=Stimulus |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Jason |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | objects *= object* |  |  |  |  | at such distance | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **make out** *in a quote* | can | Jason | such distance |  |  |  | distinctly *property* | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | objects *= object* | such distance |  |  |  |  | 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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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