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title: At the same time, however, they spoke as if it were very doubtful wh… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At the same time, however, they spoke as if it were very doubtful whether Jason would succeed in getting the Golden Fleece. Who acts: princes, Fleece, Jason. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 80

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At the same time, however, they spoke as if it were very doubtful whether Jason would succeed in getting the Golden Fleece.

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**Who acts:** princes, Fleece, Jason · **What happens:** speak, be, succeed, get · **To what, where:** Golden Fleece · **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 (princes, Fleece, Jason), 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:pg976:27:80
# text = At the same time, however, they spoke as if it were very doubtful whether Jason would succeed in getting the Golden Fleece.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	however	however	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	doubtful	doubtful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	_
16	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	Jason	Jason	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	succeed	succeed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
20	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Fleece	Fleece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | princes *= prince* |  |  |  | time | however *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | Fleece |  |  |  |  | doubtful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **succeed** | would | Jason |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **get** | gerund | Jason *not said here* | the Golden Fleece |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fleece=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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