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title: To say the truth, in the joy of beholding the object of his desires,… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: To say the truth, in the joy of beholding the object of his desires, the terrible dragon had quite slipped out of Jason's memory. Who acts: joy, terrible dragon, object. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 85

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To say the truth, in the joy of beholding the object of his desires, the terrible dragon had quite slipped out of Jason's memory.

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**Who acts:** joy, terrible dragon, object · **What happens:** say, behold, slip out, desire · **To what, where:** truth, joy, object, memory · **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 (joy, terrible dragon, object), 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:pg976:29:85
# text = To say the truth, in the joy of beholding the object of his desires, the terrible dragon had quite slipped out of Jason's memory.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	beholding	behold	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	desires	desire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	slipped	slip	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	acl	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	Jason	Jason	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  | the truth |  | the joy |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent truth=Theme in joy=Manner |
| 2 | **behold** | gerund | the joy *not said here* | the object of object's desires |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer object=Stimulus |
| 3 | **slip out** | past · perfect | the terrible dragon | Jason's memory |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent memory=Patient |
| 4 | **desire** |  | object |  |  |  |  |  | nom desire «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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