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title: At last, when his upper lip began to have the down on it, Phoenix gr… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At last, when his upper lip began to have the down on it, Phoenix grew weary of rambling hither and thither to no purpose. Who acts: upper lip, Phoenix. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 5

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At last, when his upper lip began to have the down on it, Phoenix grew weary of rambling hither and thither to no purpose.

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**Who acts:** upper lip, Phoenix · **What happens:** begin, have, grow, ramble · **To what, where:** last, down, lip, purpose

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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 (upper lip, Phoenix), 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:pg976:11:5
# text = At last, when his upper lip began to have the down on it, Phoenix grew weary of rambling hither and thither to no purpose.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	8	mark	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	lip	lip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	down	down	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	Phoenix	Phoenix	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
18	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
19	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	rambling	ramble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
21	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	21	conj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	26	det	_	_
26	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | sight's upper lip |  |  | last |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **have** | to-infinitive | sight's upper lip *not said here* | the down |  | lip |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent down=Patient |
| 3 | **grow** | past | Phoenix |  |  |  |  | weary *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **ramble** | gerund | Phoenix *not said here* |  |  | no purpose |  | hither *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to purpose=Destination |

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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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