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title: Although it was now twilight, and fast growing dark, he bade them se… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Although it was now twilight, and fast growing dark, he bade them set out instantly in search of her. Who acts: rage, king. 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 71

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Although it was now twilight, and fast growing dark, he bade them set out instantly in search of her.

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**Who acts:** rage, king · **What happens:** be, grow, bade, set out, search · **To what, where:** Cadmus, search, sister

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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 (rage, king), 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:pg976:10:71
# text = Although it was now twilight, and fast growing dark, he bade them set out instantly in search of her.
1	Although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	twilight	twilight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
9	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
10	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	bade	bade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | rage |  |  |  | now | twilight *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | rage *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **grow** | gerund | rage *not said here* |  |  |  |  | dark *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **bade** | past | king | Cadmus |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **set out** | participle |  |  |  | search of sister |  | instantly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **search** |  |  | sister |  |  |  |  | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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