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title: These now rushed from different parts of the field, and, meeting in… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: These now rushed from different parts of the field, and, meeting in the middle of it, clashed their swords, and struck at each other's hearts as fiercely as ever. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 54

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These now rushed from different parts of the field, and, meeting in the middle of it, clashed their swords, and struck at each other's hearts as fiercely as ever.

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**What happens:** rush, meet, clash, strike · **To what, where:** These, different parts, middle, swords, hearts

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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: 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:pg976:13:54
# text = These now rushed from different parts of the field, and, meeting in the middle of it, clashed their swords, and struck at each other's hearts as fiercely as ever.
1	These	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	rushed	rush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	meeting	meet	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	ccomp	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
20	clashed	clash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	swords	sword	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	struck	strike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
31	as	as	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
33	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rush** | participle · passive |  | These |  | different parts of the field | now |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme from part=Trajectory |
| 2 | **meet** | gerund |  |  |  | the middle of middle |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **clash** | past |  | parts's swords |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **strike** | participle |  | each other's hearts |  |  |  | fiercely *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient |

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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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