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title: In later times, when multitudes of people came from great distances… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In later times, when multitudes of people came from great distances to put questions to the oracle, a spacious temple of marble was erected over the spot. Who acts: multitudes. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 18

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In later times, when multitudes of people came from great distances to put questions to the oracle, a spacious temple of marble was erected over the spot.

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**Who acts:** multitudes · **What happens:** come, put, erect · **To what, where:** questions, spacious temple, spot

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (multitudes), 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:pg976:12:18
# text = In later times, when multitudes of people came from great distances to put questions to the oracle, a spacious temple of marble was erected over the spot.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	later	late	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	9	mark	_	_
6	multitudes	multitude	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	distances	distance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
15	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	oracle	oracle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	spacious	spacious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	erected	erect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	over	over	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | multitudes of people |  |  |  | time | from great distances | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from distance=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **put** | to-infinitive | multitudes of people *not said here* | questions |  |  |  | to the oracle | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Goal |
| 3 | **erect** | past · passive |  | a spacious temple *not said here* |  | the spot |  | of marble | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP» |

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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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