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title: Once he galloped so far away that Europa feared lest she might never… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Once he galloped so far away that Europa feared lest she might never see him again; so, setting up her childish voice, called him back. Who acts: bull, Europa. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 32

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Once he galloped so far away that Europa feared lest she might never see him again; so, setting up her childish voice, called him back.

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**Who acts:** bull, Europa · **What happens:** gallop, fear, not see, set up, call back · **To what, where:** bull, childish voice

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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 (bull, Europa), 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:pg976:10:32
# text = Once he galloped so far away that Europa feared lest she might never see him again; so, setting up her childish voice, called him back.
1	Once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	galloped	gallop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	Europa	Europa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	feared	fear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
10	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	again	again	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	setting	set	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	childish	childish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	back	back	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gallop** | past | bull |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fear** | past | Europa |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **not** **see** | might | Europa | bull |  |  | again |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 4 | **set up** | gerund | bull *not said here* | Europa's childish voice |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient voice=Result |
| 5 | **call back** *speech: assert* | participle | bull *not said here* |  | bull |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |

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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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