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title: He would have left quite lost, and utterly hopeless of ever again wa… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He would have left quite lost, and utterly hopeless of ever again walking in a straight path, if, every little while, he had not been conscious of a gentle twitch at the silken cord. Who acts: Theseus. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 4, with its dependenc
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 17

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He would have left quite lost, and utterly hopeless of ever again walking in a straight path, if, every little while, he had not been conscious of a gentle twitch at the silken cord.

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**Who acts:** Theseus · **What happens:** leave, lose, walk, not be · **To what, where:** straight path

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Theseus), 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:pg976:6:17
# text = He would have left quite lost, and utterly hopeless of ever again walking in a straight path, if, every little while, he had not been conscious of a gentle twitch at the silken cord.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	utterly	utterly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	hopeless	hopeless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
11	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	13	advmod	_	_
13	again	again	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	straight	straight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
23	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
29	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	cop	_	_
30	conscious	conscious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	twitch	twitch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	at	at	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	silken	silken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	cord	cord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | would · perfect | Theseus |  |  |  | while |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lose** | participle | Theseus *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **walk** | gerund | Theseus *not said here* |  |  | a straight path | again |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in path=Trajectory |
| 4 | **not** **is** | past · perfect | Theseus |  |  |  |  | of a gentle twitch at the silken cord; conscious *property* | tree rules |

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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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