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title: One always finds a use for these mischievous creatures, sooner or la… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: One always finds a use for these mischievous creatures, sooner or later; so I did not wish to kill him outright. Who acts: One, I. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 102

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One always finds a use for these mischievous creatures, sooner or later; so I did not wish to kill him outright.

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**Who acts:** One, I · **What happens:** find, not wish, kill · **To what, where:** use, potion

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, I), 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:pg976:29:102
# text = One always finds a use for these mischievous creatures, sooner or later; so I did not wish to kill him outright.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nsubj	_	_
2	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
3	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
8	mischievous	mischievous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	outright	outright	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present | One | a use |  |  |  | for this mischievous creatures; always, soon *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent use=Theme for creature=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **not** **wish** | past · do-support | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **kill** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | potion |  |  |  | outright *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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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