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title: When they had been gone a year, Telephassa threw away her crown, bec… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When they had been gone a year, Telephassa threw away her crown, because it chafed her forehead. Who acts: Telephassa, crown. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 104

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When they had been gone a year, Telephassa threw away her crown, because it chafed her forehead.

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**Who acts:** Telephassa, crown · **What happens:** go, throw away, chafe, crown · **To what, where:** garments, crown, forehead

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., 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 (Telephassa, crown), 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:pg976:10:104
# text = When they had been gone a year, Telephassa threw away her crown, because it chafed her forehead.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	Telephassa	Telephassa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	away	away	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	chafed	chafe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	forehead	forehead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · perfect · passive |  | garments *= garment* |  |  | year |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **throw away** | past | Telephassa | Telephassa's crown |  |  |  | away *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Theme |
| 3 | **chafe** | past | crown | Telephassa's forehead |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer forehead=Patient |
| 4 | **crown** |  | Telephassa |  |  |  |  |  | nom crown «communication 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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