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title: Finally, however, a sufficiently large tract of ground was turned up… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Finally, however, a sufficiently large tract of ground was turned up, and sown with this new kind of seed; although half of the dragon's teeth still remained to be planted some other day. Who acts: half. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, with its d
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 29

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Finally, however, a sufficiently large tract of ground was turned up, and sown with this new kind of seed; although half of the dragon's teeth still remained to be planted some other day.

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**Who acts:** half · **What happens:** turn up, sow, remain, plant · **To what, where:** large tract

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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 (half), 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:pg976:13:29
# text = Finally, however, a sufficiently large tract of ground was turned up, and sown with this new kind of seed; although half of the dragon's teeth still remained to be planted some other day.
1	Finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	however	however	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	sufficiently	sufficiently	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	tract	tract	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	sown	sow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
19	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
24	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
25	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	32	nsubj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
31	still	still	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	planted	plant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	xcomp	_	_
36	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	38	det	_	_
37	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn up** | past · passive |  | a large tract of ground |  |  |  | finally, however *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **sow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with this new kind of seed | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with kind=Theme |
| 3 | **remain** | past | half of the dragon's teeth |  |  |  | still |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **plant** | to-infinitive · passive | half of the dragon's teeth *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «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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