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title: So one day, when they happened to be passing through a pleasant and… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So one day, when they happened to be passing through a pleasant and solitary tract of country, he sat himself down on a heap of moss. Who acts: hereabouts, Phoenix. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 6

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So one day, when they happened to be passing through a pleasant and solitary tract of country, he sat himself down on a heap of moss.

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**Who acts:** hereabouts, Phoenix · **What happens:** happen, pass, sit down · **To what, where:** pleasant tract, Phoenix, heap

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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 (hereabouts, 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:pg976:11:6
# text = So one day, when they happened to be passing through a pleasant and solitary tract of country, he sat himself down on a heap of moss.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux	_	_
10	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
11	through	through	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	solitary	solitary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	tract	tract	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
22	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	21	obj	_	_
23	down	down	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	moss	moss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | hereabouts *= hereabout* |  |  |  | day |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive · progressive | hereabouts *= hereabout* *not said here* |  |  | a pleasant tract of country |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through tract=Location |
| 3 | **sit down** | past | Phoenix | Phoenix |  | a heap of moss |  |  | tree rules |

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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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