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title: She could not help being sorrowful at finding him already so impatie… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She could not help being sorrowful at finding him already so impatient to begin his adventures in the world. Who acts: mother, wonder. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 24

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She could not help being sorrowful at finding him already so impatient to begin his adventures in the world.

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**Who acts:** mother, wonder · **What happens:** not help, be, find, begin, adventure · **To what, where:** wonder, adventures, world

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, wonder), 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:pg976:3:24
# text = She could not help being sorrowful at finding him already so impatient to begin his adventures in the world.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
6	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
7	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	already	already	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	impatient	impatient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	begin	begin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **help** | could | mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *not said to happen* | gerund | mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sorrowful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** | gerund | mother *not said here* | wonder |  |  |  | impatient *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
| 4 | **begin** | to-infinitive | mother *not said here* | wonder's adventures |  | the world |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Eventuality |
| 5 | **adventure** |  | wonder |  |  |  |  |  | nom adventure «act 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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