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title: And by and by there came other people, who chanced to have no homes;… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And by and by there came other people, who chanced to have no homes; and, seeing how pleasant a spot it was, they built themselves huts in the neighborhood of Phoenix's habitation. Who acts: other people, people. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, w
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 21

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And by and by there came other people, who chanced to have no homes; and, seeing how pleasant a spot it was, they built themselves huts in the neighborhood of Phoenix's habitation.

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**Who acts:** other people, people · **What happens:** come, chance, have, see, build · **To what, where:** other people, homes, pleasant spot, people, neighborhood

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other people, people), 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:pg976:11:21
# text = And by and by there came other people, who chanced to have no homes; and, seeing how pleasant a spot it was, they built themselves huts in the neighborhood of Phoenix's habitation.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	obl	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	chanced	chance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
20	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
21	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
29	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	28	obj	_	_
30	huts	hut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	neighborhood	neighborhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	Phoenix	Phoenix	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	's	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	habitation	habitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  | other people |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location people=Theme |
| 2 | **chance** | past | other people |  |  |  |  |  | vn risk-94-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | to-infinitive | other people *not said here* | no homes |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Patient |
| 4 | **see** | gerund | people *not said here* | a pleasant spot |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spot=Stimulus |
| 5 | **build** | past | people | people |  | the neighborhood of Phoenix's habitation |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset themselves=Beneficiary hut=Product |

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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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