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title: Let us get on board the galley this instant; and if the dragon is to… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Let us get on board the galley this instant; and if the dragon is to make a breakfast of us, much good may it do him." Who acts: you, us, dragon. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 2

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Let us get on board the galley this instant; and if the dragon is to make a breakfast of us, much good may it do him."

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**Who acts:** you, us, dragon · **What happens:** let, get, be, do · **To what, where:** us, instant, galley, him

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us, dragon), 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:pg976:28:2
# text = Let us get on board the galley this instant; and if the dragon is to make a breakfast of us, much good may it do him."
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	board	board	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	galley	galley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	much	much	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	ccomp	_	_
25	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | infinitive | us *not said here* | this instant |  | the galley |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent instant=Theme on galley=Source |
| 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the dragon |  |  |  |  | make *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | may | dragon | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |

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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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