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title: The world will always have simpletons enough, just like them, fighti… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The world will always have simpletons enough, just like them, fighting and dying for they know not what, and fancying that posterity will take the trouble to put laurel wreaths on their rusty and battered helmets. Who acts: world, ends, posterity. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawtho
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 26

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The world will always have simpletons enough, just like them, fighting and dying for they know not what, and fancying that posterity will take the trouble to put laurel wreaths on their rusty and battered helmets.

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**Who acts:** world, ends, posterity · **What happens:** have, fight, die, not know, fancy, take · **To what, where:** simpletons, trouble, laurel wreaths, rusty battered helmets

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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 (world, ends, posterity), 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:pg976:29:26
# text = The world will always have simpletons enough, just like them, fighting and dying for they know not what, and fancying that posterity will take the trouble to put laurel wreaths on their rusty and battered helmets.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	simpletons	simpleton	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	just	just	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	dying	die	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
20	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	fancying	fancy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	posterity	posterity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
32	laurel	laurel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	wreaths	wreath	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
35	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
36	rusty	rusty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	battered	batter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	amod	_	_
39	helmets	helmet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | future | the world | simpletons |  |  |  | always, enough *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent simpleton=Patient |
| 2 | **fight** | gerund |  |  |  |  | like ends *= end* |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **die** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **not** **know** | present | ends *= end* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
| 5 | **fancy** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **take** | future | posterity | the trouble |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Theme |
| 7 | **put** | to-infinitive | posterity *not said here* | laurel wreaths |  | ends's rusty battered helmets |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent wreath=Theme on helmet=Destination |
| 8 | **batter** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |

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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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