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title: He felt conscious that he was wiser, and braver, and stronger than h… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He felt conscious that he was wiser, and braver, and stronger than his companions, and that therefore he had the responsibility of all their lives upon him, and must consider whether there was no way to save them, even in this last extremity. Who acts: Theseus, way. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» 
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 86

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He felt conscious that he was wiser, and braver, and stronger than his companions, and that therefore he had the responsibility of all their lives upon him, and must consider whether there was no way to save them, even in this last extremity.

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**Who acts:** Theseus, way · **What happens:** feel, be, have, consider, save · **To what, where:** responsibility, maidens, last extremity

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Theseus, way), 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:pg976:5:86
# text = He felt conscious that he was wiser, and braver, and stronger than his companions, and that therefore he had the responsibility of all their lives upon him, and must consider whether there was no way to save them, even in this last extremity.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	conscious	conscious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	wiser	wise	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	braver	brave	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	conj	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	responsibility	responsibility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	28	det:predet	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
29	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	consider	consider	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
35	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
36	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	37	expl	_	_
37	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	ccomp	_	_
38	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	39	det	_	_
39	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	acl	_	_
42	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
44	even	even	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	48	det	_	_
47	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	extremity	extremity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | Theseus |  |  |  |  | conscious *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | Theseus |  |  |  |  | wise *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | Theseus *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | past | Theseus | the responsibility of companions's lives upon King |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent responsibility=Patient |
| 5 | **consider** | must | Theseus *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **be** | past | no way |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **save** | to-infinitive | no way *not said here* | maidens *= maiden* |  | this last extremity |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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