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title: As for the fiery breath of these animals, I have a charmed ointment… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As for the fiery breath of these animals, I have a charmed ointment here, which will prevent you from being burned up, and cure you if you chance to be a little scorched." Who acts: I, you. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 4, with its dependency tree 
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 52

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As for the fiery breath of these animals, I have a charmed ointment here, which will prevent you from being burned up, and cure you if you chance to be a little scorched."

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**Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** have, charm, prevent, burn up, cure, chance · **To what, where:** charmed ointment, you, little

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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 (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:pg976:28:52
# text = As for the fiery breath of these animals, I have a charmed ointment here, which will prevent you from being burned up, and cure you if you chance to be a little scorched."
1	As	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	5	case	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	charmed	charm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	ointment	ointment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	burned	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	advcl	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	cure	cure	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	xcomp	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	aux:pass	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	obl:unmarked	_	_
36	scorched	scorch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | I | a charmed ointment |  | here |  | as the fiery breath of this animals | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ointment=Patient |
| 2 | **charm** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **prevent** | future |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer you=Theme |
| 4 | **burn up** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V» |
| 5 | **cure** | infinitive | I *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer you=Source |
| 6 | **chance** *a condition, not said to happen* |  | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **scorch** | to-infinitive · passive | I *not said here* | a little |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V» |

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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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