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title: Quarry some stones with those great swords of yours, and help me to… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Quarry some stones with those great swords of yours, and help me to build a city." Who acts: you, me. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 70

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Quarry some stones with those great swords of yours, and help me to build a city."

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**Who acts:** you, me · **What happens:** quarry, help, build · **To what, where:** stones, me, city

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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 (you, me), 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:pg976:13:70
# text = Quarry some stones with those great swords of yours, and help me to build a city."
1	Quarry	quarry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	swords	sword	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	help	help	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **quarry** | imperative | you *not said here* | some stones |  |  |  | with that great swords of yours | vn mine-10.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme |
| 2 | **help** | infinitive | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 3 | **build** | to-infinitive | me *not said here* | a city |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset city=Product |

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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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