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title: As the neighboring inhabitants carefully avoided the spot, it was no… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 12

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As the neighboring inhabitants carefully avoided the spot, it was now a long time (not less than a hundred years or thereabouts) since the monster had broken his fast; and, as was natural enough, his appetite had grown to be enormous, and was not half satisfied by the poor people whom he had just eaten up.

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**Who acts:** neighboring inhabitants, spot, appetite, poor people · **What happens:** avoid, be, break, grow, not satisfy, eat up · **To what, where:** spot, long time, monster, poor people

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neighboring inhabitants, spot, appetite, poor people), 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:pg976:13:12
# text = As the neighboring inhabitants carefully avoided the spot, it was now a long time (not less than a hundred years or thereabouts) since the monster had broken his fast; and, as was natural enough, his appetite had grown to be enormous, and was not half satisfied by the poor people whom he had just eaten up.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	neighboring	neighboring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	avoided	avoid	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
12	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
19	than	than	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	thereabouts	thereabout	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
26	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
36	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
38	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	advcl	_	_
39	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	appetite	appetite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
43	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
46	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	cop	_	_
47	enormous	enormous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
50	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux:pass	_	_
51	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	53	advmod	_	_
52	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	53	advmod	_	_
53	satisfied	satisfy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
54	by	by	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
56	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	obl	_	_
58	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	62	obl	_	_
59	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	62	nsubj	_	_
60	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	62	aux	_	_
61	just	just	ADV	RB	_	62	advmod	_	_
62	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	57	acl:relcl	_	_
63	up	up	ADP	RP	_	62	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **avoid** | past | the neighboring inhabitants | the spot |  |  |  | carefully *property* | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent spot=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | past | spot | a long time |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **break** | past · perfect · passive |  | the monster |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | past | monster's appetite *not said here* |  |  |  |  | enough, natural *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **grow** | past · perfect | monster's appetite |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | to-infinitive | monster's appetite *not said here* |  |  |  |  | enormous *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **not** **satisfy** | past · passive | the poor people |  |  |  |  | half *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **eat up** | past · perfect | appetite | the poor people |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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