--- title: And what merry times they might have, either taking turns for a gall… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And what merry times they might have, either taking turns for a gallop, or clambering on the gentle creature, all four children together, and careering round the field with shouts of laughter that would be heard as far off as King Agenor's palace! Who acts: brothers. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/10/42/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Tanglewood Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/) / [The Dragon's Teeth., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/10/) / 42 # Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 42 And what merry times they might have, either taking turns for a gallop, or clambering on the gentle creature, all four children together, and careering round the field with shouts of laughter that would be heard as far off as King Agenor's palace! **Who acts:** brothers · **What happens:** have, take, clamber, career, shout, hear · **To what, where:** turns, gentle creature, laughter 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg976:10:42 # text = And what merry times they might have, either taking turns for a gallop, or clambering on the gentle creature, all four children together, and careering round the field with shouts of laughter that would be heard as far off as King Agenor's palace! 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 2 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 7 obj _ _ 3 merry merry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 5 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 either either CCONJ CC _ 10 cc:preconj _ _ 10 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 11 turns turn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 gallop gallop NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 clambering clamber VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 conj _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 gentle gentle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 creature creature NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 25 det _ _ 24 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 26 together together ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 careering career VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 conj _ _ 30 round round ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 shouts shout VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 parataxis _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 laughter laughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 37 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 40 nsubj:pass _ _ 38 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 39 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 40 aux:pass _ _ 40 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 acl:relcl _ _ 41 as as ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 42 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 43 advmod _ _ 43 off off ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 44 as as ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 45 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 nmod:poss _ _ 46 Agenor Agenor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 47 's 's PART POS _ 45 case _ _ 48 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ! ! PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | might | brothers *= brother* | | | | time | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | | 2 | **take** | gerund | brothers *= brother* *not said here* | turns | | | | for a gallop | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent turn=Theme for gallop=Beneficiary | | 3 | **clamber** | gerund | brothers *= brother* *not said here* | | | the gentle creature and all four children | | together *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on creature=Trajectory | | 4 | **career** | gerund | brothers *= brother* *not said here* | | | | | round the field | tree rules | | 5 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | | | | | | of laughter | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **hear** | would · passive | | laughter | | | | as King's palace; off *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/10/41/) - next →: [sentence 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/10/43/) - ↑ back to [The Dragon's Teeth., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/10/)