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title: As fast as their princely robes got torn and tattered, they exchange… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As fast as their princely robes got torn and tattered, they exchanged them for such mean attire as ordinary people wore. Who acts: robes, ordinary people. 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 106

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As fast as their princely robes got torn and tattered, they exchanged them for such mean attire as ordinary people wore.

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**Who acts:** robes, ordinary people · **What happens:** tear, tatter, exchange, wear · **To what, where:** princely robes, garments

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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 (robes, ordinary people), 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:pg976:10:106
# text = As fast as their princely robes got torn and tattered, they exchanged them for such mean attire as ordinary people wore.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	princely	princely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	robes	robe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	tattered	tatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	exchanged	exchange	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	mean	mean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	attire	attire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tear** | past · passive |  | garments's princely robes |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **tatter** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **exchange** | past | robes *= robe* | garments *= garment* |  |  |  | for such mean attire; fast *property* | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme for attire=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **wear** | past | ordinary people |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=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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