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title: To speak my mind plainly, you shall never set eyes on so much as one… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: To speak my mind plainly, you shall never set eyes on so much as one of its glistening locks." Who acts: you, my. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 47

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To speak my mind plainly, you shall never set eyes on so much as one of its glistening locks."

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**Who acts:** you, my · **What happens:** speak, not set, glisten, mind · **To what, where:** mind, eyes · **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, my), 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:pg976:29:47
# text = To speak my mind plainly, you shall never set eyes on so much as one of its glistening locks."
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	plainly	plainly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	glistening	glisten	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	amod	_	_
20	locks	lock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | my mind |  |  |  | plainly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **set** | shall | you | eyes |  |  |  | on much one of mind's glistening locks | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on one=Destination |
| 3 | **glisten** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **mind** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition 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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