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title: Then what a scream of terror did the poor child send forth! — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then what a scream of terror did the poor child send forth! Who acts: scream, terror. 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 62

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Then what a scream of terror did the poor child send forth!

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**Who acts:** scream, terror · **What happens:** send, scream

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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 (scream, terror), 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:pg976:10:62
# text = Then what a scream of terror did the poor child send forth!
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	obj	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	scream	scream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past · do-support | a scream of terror |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
| 2 | **scream** |  | terror |  |  |  |  |  | nom scream «communication intransitive»: of=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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