--- title: Up sprouted also a great many trumpeters; and with the first breath… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Up sprouted also a great many trumpeters; and with the first breath that they drew, they put their brazen trumpets to their lips, and sounded a tremendous and ear-shattering blast, so that the whole space, just now so quiet and solitary, reverberated with the clash and clang of arms, the bray of war --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/13/40/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Tanglewood Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/) / [The Dragon's Teeth., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/13/) / 40 # Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 40 Up sprouted also a great many trumpeters; and with the first breath that they drew, they put their brazen trumpets to their lips, and sounded a tremendous and ear-shattering blast, so that the whole space, just now so quiet and solitary, reverberated with the clash and clang of arms, the bray of warlike music, and the shouts of angry men. **Who acts:** teeth, warlike music · **What happens:** sprout, draw, put, sound, shatter, reverberate · **To what, where:** great many trumpeters, brazen trumpets, tremendous shattering blast, arms 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 (teeth, warlike music), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg976:13:40 # text = Up sprouted also a great many trumpeters; and with the first breath that they drew, they put their brazen trumpets to their lips, and sounded a tremendous and ear-shattering blast, so that the whole space, just now so quiet and solitary, reverberated with the clash and clang of arms, the bray of warlike music, and the shouts of angry men. 1 Up up ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 sprouted sprout VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 3 also also ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 trumpeters trumpeter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 13 amod _ _ 13 breath breath NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 14 that that SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 brazen brazen ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 trumpets trumpet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 lips lip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 sounded sound VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 30 tremendous tremendous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 shattering shatter VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 35 amod _ _ 35 blast blast NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 so so SCONJ IN _ 41 case _ _ 38 that that SCONJ IN _ 37 fixed _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 43 just just ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 44 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 46 advmod _ _ 45 so so ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 46 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 conj _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 48 solitary solitary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 50 reverberated reverberate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 46 conj _ _ 51 with with ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 52 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 53 clash clash NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obl _ _ 54 and and CCONJ CC _ 55 cc _ _ 55 clang clang NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 conj _ _ 56 of of ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 57 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 55 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 58 , , PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ _ 59 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 60 det _ _ 60 bray bray NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 conj _ _ 61 of of ADP IN _ 63 case _ _ 62 warlike warlike ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 63 amod _ _ 63 music music NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 64 , , PUNCT , _ 67 punct _ _ 65 and and CCONJ CC _ 67 cc _ _ 66 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 67 det _ _ 67 shouts shout VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 parataxis _ _ 68 of of ADP IN _ 70 case _ _ 69 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 70 amod _ _ 70 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 67 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 71 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sprout** | participle | | a great many trumpeters | | | | with the first breath | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with breath=Theme | | 2 | **draw** | past | teeth *= tooth* | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **put** | past | teeth *= tooth* | teeth's brazen trumpets | | | | to teeth's lips | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent trumpet=Goal | | 4 | **sound** | past | | a tremendous shattering blast | | | | so the whole space | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blast=Theme | | 5 | **shatter** | gerund | | | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **reverberate** | participle | | | | | | with the clash and clang of arms and the bray of warlike music | vn sound\_existence-47.4 «NP.location V NP.theme»: agent=Location with clash=Theme | | 7 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | | | | | | of angry men | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **clang** | | | arms | | | | | nom clang «event transitive»: of=patient | | 9 | **bray** | | warlike music | | | | | | nom bray «event intransitive»: of=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/13/39/) - next →: [sentence 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/13/41/) - ↑ back to [The Dragon's Teeth., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/13/)