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title: When they reached the margin of the sand, the treacherous animal was… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When they reached the margin of the sand, the treacherous animal was already far away in the wide blue sea, with only his snowy head and tail emerging, and poor little Europa between them, stretching out one hand towards her dear brothers, while she grasped the bull's ivory horn with the other. Who 
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 65

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When they reached the margin of the sand, the treacherous animal was already far away in the wide blue sea, with only his snowy head and tail emerging, and poor little Europa between them, stretching out one hand towards her dear brothers, while she grasped the bull's ivory horn with the other.

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**Who acts:** legs, treacherous animal, snowy head, poor little Europa, Europa · **What happens:** reach, be, emerge, stretch out, grasp · **To what, where:** margin, wide blue sea, one hand, ivory horn

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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 (legs, treacherous animal, snowy head, poor little 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:pg976:10:65
# text = When they reached the margin of the sand, the treacherous animal was already far away in the wide blue sea, with only his snowy head and tail emerging, and poor little Europa between them, stretching out one hand towards her dear brothers, while she grasped the bull's ivory horn with the other.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	margin	margin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	treacherous	treacherous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	already	already	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
16	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	only	only	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	snowy	snowy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
30	emerging	emerge	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
33	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	Europa	Europa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
36	between	between	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	stretching	stretch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
40	out	out	ADP	RP	_	39	compound:prt	_	_
41	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	42	nummod	_	_
42	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
43	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
45	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
48	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
49	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
50	grasped	grasp	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	's	's	PART	POS	_	52	case	_	_
54	ivory	ivory	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	_
56	with	with	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | legs *= leg* | the margin of the sand |  |  |  | with bull's snowy head and tail | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent margin=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the treacherous animal |  |  | the wide blue sea |  | away, far *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **emerge** | gerund | bull's snowy head and tail *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **stretch out** | gerund | poor little Europa between legs | one hand |  |  |  | towards Europa's dear brothers | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient towards brother=Recipient |
| 5 | **grasp** | past | Europa | the bull's ivory horn |  |  |  | with the other | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent horn=Theme with other=Instrument |

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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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