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title: But her brothers were too far off to hear; especially as the fright… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But her brothers were too far off to hear; especially as the fright took away Europa's voice, and hindered her from calling very loudly. Who acts: brothers, fright. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 18

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But her brothers were too far off to hear; especially as the fright took away Europa's voice, and hindered her from calling very loudly.

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**Who acts:** brothers, fright · **What happens:** hear, take away, hinder, call · **To what, where:** voice, fright · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (brothers, fright), 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:pg976:10:18
# text = But her brothers were too far off to hear; especially as the fright took away Europa's voice, and hindered her from calling very loudly.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
7	off	off	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	fright	fright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
16	away	away	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	Europa	Europa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	hindered	hinder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
26	very	very	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | Cilix's brothers |  |  |  |  | off *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **take away** | past | the fright | Europa's voice |  |  |  | especially *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme |
| 3 | **hinder** | past | the fright *not said here* | fright |  |  |  |  | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer she=Eventuality |
| 4 | **call** | gerund | the fright *not said here* |  |  |  |  | loudly *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: 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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