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title: "I should not so much care for the dragon," replied Jason, "if I onl… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "I should not so much care for the dragon," replied Jason, "if I only knew how to manage the brazen-footed and fiery-lunged bulls." Who acts: much care. 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 49

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"I should not so much care for the dragon," replied Jason, "if I only knew how to manage the brazen-footed and fiery-lunged bulls."

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**Who acts:** much care · **What happens:** not care, reply, know, manage, lunge · **To what, where:** Jason, footed lunged bulls · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (much care), 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:pg976:28:49
# text = "I should not so much care for the dragon," replied Jason, "if I only knew how to manage the brazen-footed and fiery-lunged bulls."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
3	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
13	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	Jason	Jason	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	only	only	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
21	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	manage	manage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
25	brazen	brazen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	footed	footed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	lunged	lunge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	amod	_	_
32	bulls	bull	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **care** *in a quote* | should | much care *= care* |  |  |  |  | for the dragon | tree rules |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | much care | Jason |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent jason=Topic |
| 3 | **know** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | much care *= care* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **manage** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | much care *= care* *not said here* | the footed lunged bulls |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bull=Theme |
| 5 | **lunge** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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