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title: True, the Golden Fleece may not be so valuable as you have thought i… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: True, the Golden Fleece may not be so valuable as you have thought it; but then there is nothing better in the world; and one must needs have an object, you know. Who acts: Golden Fleece, you, nothing, one needs. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 5, wi
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 31

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True, the Golden Fleece may not be so valuable as you have thought it; but then there is nothing better in the world; and one must needs have an object, you know.

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**Who acts:** Golden Fleece, you, nothing, one needs · **What happens:** not be, think, be, have, know · **To what, where:** Fleece, world, object

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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 (Golden Fleece, you, nothing, one needs), 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:pg976:29:31
# text = True, the Golden Fleece may not be so valuable as you have thought it; but then there is nothing better in the world; and one must needs have an object, you know.
1	True	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Fleece	Fleece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	valuable	valuable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
19	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	20	expl	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	22	nsubj	_	_
22	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	conj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
29	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	needs	need	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
31	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
32	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **not** **is** | may | the Golden Fleece |  |  |  |  | valuable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present · perfect | you | Fleece |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | nothing |  |  | the world |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | present | one needs | a object |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent object=Patient |
| 5 | **know** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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