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title: Hercules had guessed this secret; and it may be well for us all to r… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Hercules had guessed this secret; and it may be well for us all to remember it, in case we should ever have to fight a battle with a fellow like Antaeus. Who acts: Hercules, secret, us, we. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 2, with its dependency tree and th
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 99

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Hercules had guessed this secret; and it may be well for us all to remember it, in case we should ever have to fight a battle with a fellow like Antaeus.

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**Who acts:** Hercules, secret, us, we · **What happens:** guess, be, remember, have, fight · **To what, where:** secret, battle

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hercules, secret, us, we), 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:pg976:8:99
# text = Hercules had guessed this secret; and it may be well for us all to remember it, in case we should ever have to fight a battle with a fellow like Antaeus.
1	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	guessed	guess	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
11	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	nmod:unmarked	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	24	mark	_	_
20	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	fixed	_	_
21	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	24	advmod	_	_
24	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
32	like	like	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **guess** | past · perfect | Hercules | this secret |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | may | secret |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **remember** | to-infinitive | us | secret |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | should | we |  |  |  | ever |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fight** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | a battle |  |  |  | with a fellow like Antaeus | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Co-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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