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title: The success of this scheme depended, it is true, on the doubtful poi… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The success of this scheme depended, it is true, on the doubtful point whether all the fifty heroes might not be snapped up, at so many mouthfuls, by the dragon. Who acts: success, doubtful point. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 5, with its dependenc
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 50

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The success of this scheme depended, it is true, on the doubtful point whether all the fifty heroes might not be snapped up, at so many mouthfuls, by the dragon.

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**Who acts:** success, doubtful point · **What happens:** depend, be, not snap up · **To what, where:** fifty heroes, many mouthfuls

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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 (success, doubtful point), 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:pg976:29:50
# text = The success of this scheme depended, it is true, on the doubtful point whether all the fifty heroes might not be snapped up, at so many mouthfuls, by the dragon.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	success	success	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	scheme	scheme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	depended	depend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	doubtful	doubtful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
16	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	20	det:predet	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	snapped	snap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	mouthfuls	mouthful	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **depend** | past | the success of this scheme |  |  |  |  |  | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | success |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **snap up** | might · passive | the doubtful point *not said here* | all fifty heroes |  | many mouthfuls by the dragon |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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