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title: But, since the young man had met with such good luck in the matter o… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But, since the young man had met with such good luck in the matter of the brazen bulls and the dragon's teeth, the king feared that he would be equally successful in slaying the dragon. Who acts: young man, king, brazen bulls. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleec
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 42

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But, since the young man had met with such good luck in the matter of the brazen bulls and the dragon's teeth, the king feared that he would be equally successful in slaying the dragon.

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**Who acts:** young man, king, brazen bulls · **What happens:** meet, fear, be, slay, matter · **To what, where:** dragon · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (young man, king, brazen bulls), 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:pg976:29:42
# text = But, since the young man had met with such good luck in the matter of the brazen bulls and the dragon's teeth, the king feared that he would be equally successful in slaying the dragon.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	brazen	brazen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	bulls	bull	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	feared	fear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
31	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	cop	_	_
33	equally	equally	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	successful	successful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	ccomp	_	_
35	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
36	slaying	slay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	advcl	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past · perfect | the young man |  |  |  |  | with such good luck in the matter of the brazen bulls and the dragon's teeth | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with luck=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **fear** | past | the king |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | would | king |  |  |  |  | equally, successful *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **slay** | gerund | king *not said here* | the dragon |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Patient |
| 5 | **matter** |  | the brazen bulls and the dragon's teeth |  |  |  |  |  | nom matter «cognition intransitive»: of=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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