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title: Any farmer, on viewing it, would have said that Jason must wait week… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Any farmer, on viewing it, would have said that Jason must wait weeks before the green blades would peep from among the clods, and whole months before the yellow grain would be ripened for the sickle. Who acts: farmer, Jason, green blades. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 96

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Any farmer, on viewing it, would have said that Jason must wait weeks before the green blades would peep from among the clods, and whole months before the yellow grain would be ripened for the sickle.

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**Who acts:** farmer, Jason, green blades · **What happens:** view, say, wait, peep, ripen · **To what, where:** farmer · **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 (farmer, Jason, green blades), 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:pg976:28:96
# text = Any farmer, on viewing it, would have said that Jason must wait weeks before the green blades would peep from among the clods, and whole months before the yellow grain would be ripened for the sickle.
1	Any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	viewing	view	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	Jason	Jason	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
15	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	blades	blade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	peep	peep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	among	among	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	clods	clod	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
28	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl:unmarked	_	_
30	before	before	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
34	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	ripened	ripen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	sickle	sickle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **view** | gerund | any farmer *not said here* | farmer |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | would · perfect · passive |  | any farmer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **wait** | must | Jason |  |  |  | week |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **peep** | would | the green blades |  |  |  |  | from the clods | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from clod=Theme |
| 5 | **ripen** | would · passive |  |  |  |  | month | for the sickle | 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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