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title: He had now grown too intent on following her to think of lagging beh… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He had now grown too intent on following her to think of lagging behind, however long the way, and whatever might be his fatigue. Who acts: herdsman, whatever. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 77

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He had now grown too intent on following her to think of lagging behind, however long the way, and whatever might be his fatigue.

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**Who acts:** herdsman, whatever · **What happens:** grow, follow, think, lag behind, be · **To what, where:** cow, fatigue

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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 (herdsman, whatever), 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:pg976:12:77
# text = He had now grown too intent on following her to think of lagging behind, however long the way, and whatever might be his fatigue.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	intent	intent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
7	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
12	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	lagging	lag	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
14	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	however	however	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
23	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	fatigue	fatigue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past · perfect | herdsman |  |  |  | now | intent *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund | herdsman *not said here* | cow |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | herdsman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **lag behind** | gerund | herdsman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | behind, long *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | might | whatever | herdsman's fatigue |  |  |  |  | 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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