--- title: I hope you have been considering the matter a little more wisely, an… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: I hope you have been considering the matter a little more wisely, and have concluded not to get yourself scorched to a cinder, in attempting to tame my brazen-lunged bulls." Who acts: I, you, yourself. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, yourself), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg976:29:37 # text = I hope you have been considering the matter a little more wisely, and have concluded not to get yourself scorched to a cinder, in attempting to tame my brazen-lunged bulls." 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 hope hope VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 4 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 aux _ _ 6 considering consider VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 ccomp _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 matter matter NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 obl:unmarked _ _ 11 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 6 advmod _ _ 12 wisely wisely ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 concluded conclude VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ _ 20 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 19 obj _ _ 21 scorched scorch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 xcomp _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 cinder cinder NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 in in SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 27 attempting attempt VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 tame tame VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 31 brazen brazen ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 lunged lunge VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 amod _ _ 34 bulls bull NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hope** | present | I | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **consider** | present · perfect · progressive | you | the matter | | | | | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent matter=Attribute | | 3 | **conclude** | present · perfect | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **not** **get** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | yourself | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **scorch** | participle | yourself *not said here* | | | | | to a cinder | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **attempt** | gerund | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **tame** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | my lunged bulls | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bull=Patient | | 8 | **lunge** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/29/36/) - next →: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/29/38/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Fleece., part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/29/)