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title: "You never would have succeeded in this business, young man," said h… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "You never would have succeeded in this business, young man," said he, "if my undutiful daughter Medea had not helped you with her enchantments. Who acts: You, king, undutiful daughter, daughter. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 5, with its dependency
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 44

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"You never would have succeeded in this business, young man," said he, "if my undutiful daughter Medea had not helped you with her enchantments.

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**Who acts:** You, king, undutiful daughter, daughter · **What happens:** not succeed, say, not help, enchant · **To what, where:** business, you · **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 (You, king, undutiful daughter, daughter), 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:pg976:29:44
# text = "You never would have succeeded in this business, young man," said he, "if my undutiful daughter Medea had not helped you with her enchantments.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
6	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	ccomp	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	undutiful	undutiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
23	Medea	Medea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	helped	help	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	enchantments	enchantment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **succeed** *in a quote* | would · perfect | You |  |  | this business and young man |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent in business=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | king |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **help** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past · perfect | my undutiful daughter |  | you |  |  | with daughter's enchantments | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary with enchantment=Theme |
| 4 | **enchant** *in a quote* |  | daughter |  |  |  |  |  | nom enchantment «feeling transitive»: poss=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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