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title: "My young friends," quietly replied Jason, "I do not wonder that you… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "My young friends," quietly replied Jason, "I do not wonder that you think the dragon very terrible. Who acts: I, you. 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 86

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"My young friends," quietly replied Jason, "I do not wonder that you think the dragon very terrible.

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**Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** reply, not wonder, think · **To what, where:** young friends, dragon · **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 (I, you), 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:pg976:27:86
# text = "My young friends," quietly replied Jason, "I do not wonder that you think the dragon very terrible.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
7	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	replied	reply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	Jason	Jason	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	wonder	wonder	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	very	very	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | participle · passive |  | My young friends |  |  |  | quietly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **wonder** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | present · do-support | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | you | the dragon |  |  |  | terrible *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot dragon=Theme |

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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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