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title: "Only be brave," added she, "and before daybreak the brazen bulls sh… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Only be brave," added she, "and before daybreak the brazen bulls shall be tamed." Who acts: you. 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 54

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"Only be brave," added she, "and before daybreak the brazen bulls shall be tamed."

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** be, add, tame · **To what, where:** heart, brazen 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 (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:pg976:28:54
# text = "Only be brave," added she, "and before daybreak the brazen bulls shall be tamed."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
12	before	before	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	daybreak	daybreak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	brazen	brazen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	bulls	bull	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	tamed	tame	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | brave *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | past | you *not said here* | heart |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 3 | **tame** *in a quote* | shall · passive |  | the brazen bulls |  |  | before daybreak |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |

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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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