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title: It is well for you that I am favorably inclined; for, otherwise, you… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It is well for you that I am favorably inclined; for, otherwise, you would hardly escape being snapped up by the dragon." Who acts: staff, you, 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 48

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It is well for you that I am favorably inclined; for, otherwise, you would hardly escape being snapped up by the dragon."

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**Who acts:** staff, you, dragon · **What happens:** be, incline, escape, snap up · **To what, where:** I

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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 (staff, you, 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:pg976:28:48
# text = It is well for you that I am favorably inclined; for, otherwise, you would hardly escape being snapped up by the dragon."
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
9	favorably	favorably	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	inclined	incline	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
20	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	snapped	snap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	xcomp	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | staff |  |  |  |  | for you; well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **incline** | present · passive |  | I |  |  |  | favorably, otherwise *property* | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **escape** | would | you |  |  |  |  | hardly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **snap up** | gerund · passive | the dragon |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |

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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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