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title: But, though the gray years thrust themselves between, and made the c… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But, though the gray years thrust themselves between, and made the child's figure dim in their remembrance, neither of these true-hearted three ever dreamed of giving up the search. Who acts: years thrust, child, bulls. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., pa
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 56

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But, though the gray years thrust themselves between, and made the child's figure dim in their remembrance, neither of these true-hearted three ever dreamed of giving up the search.

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**Who acts:** years thrust, child, bulls · **What happens:** make, dream, give up, figure, remember · **To what, where:** figure, search

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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 (years thrust, child, bulls), 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:pg976:11:56
# text = But, though the gray years thrust themselves between, and made the child's figure dim in their remembrance, neither of these true-hearted three ever dreamed of giving up the search.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	gray	gray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	compound	_	_
7	thrust	thrust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
8	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	nsubj	_	_
9	between	between	ADP	IN	_	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
17	dim	dim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	remembrance	remembrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	28	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
24	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	28	nsubj	_	_
25	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	hearted	hearted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	_
29	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	30	advmod	_	_
30	dreamed	dream	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
31	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
32	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
33	up	up	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | years thrust | the child's figure |  |  |  | of hearted three; dim *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset figure=Product |
| 2 | **dream** | participle |  |  |  |  | ever |  | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **give up** | gerund |  | the search |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent search=Source |
| 4 | **figure** |  | the child |  |  |  |  |  | nom figure «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **remember** |  | bulls *= bull* |  |  |  |  |  | nom remembrance «cognition transitive»: poss=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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