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title: The trumpeters, all the while, blew their blasts shriller and shrill… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The trumpeters, all the while, blew their blasts shriller and shriller; each soldier shouted a battle cry, and often fell with it on his lips. Who acts: trumpeters, soldier. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 49

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The trumpeters, all the while, blew their blasts shriller and shriller; each soldier shouted a battle cry, and often fell with it on his lips.

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**Who acts:** trumpeters, soldier · **What happens:** blow, shout, fall, blast · **To what, where:** blasts, battle cry, lips

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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 (trumpeters, soldier), 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:pg976:13:49
# text = The trumpeters, all the while, blew their blasts shriller and shriller; each soldier shouted a battle cry, and often fell with it on his lips.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	trumpeters	trumpeter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	blasts	blast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	shriller	shrill	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	xcomp	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	shriller	shrill	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	shouted	shout	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	often	often	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | past | the trumpeters and all while | trumpeters's blasts |  |  |  | shrill *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent blast=Patient |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | past | each soldier | a battle cry |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Topic |
| 3 | **fall** | past | each soldier *not said here* |  |  | man's lips |  | with soldier; often *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on lip=Location |
| 4 | **blast** |  | trumpeters *= trumpeter* |  |  |  |  |  | nom blast «act transitive»: poss=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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