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title: It had grown up out of the earth in almost as short a time as it had… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It had grown up out of the earth in almost as short a time as it had taken the armed host to spring from the dragon's teeth; and what made the matter more strange, no seed of this stately edifice ever had been planted. Who acts: palace. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dr
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 84

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It had grown up out of the earth in almost as short a time as it had taken the armed host to spring from the dragon's teeth; and what made the matter more strange, no seed of this stately edifice ever had been planted.

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**Who acts:** palace · **What happens:** grow up, take, make, plant · **To what, where:** earth, it, matter, edifice

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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 (palace), 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:pg976:13:84
# text = It had grown up out of the earth in almost as short a time as it had taken the armed host to spring from the dragon's teeth; and what made the matter more strange, no seed of this stately edifice ever had been planted.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	32	nsubj	_	_
32	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	36	advmod	_	_
36	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	39	det	_	_
39	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	43	det	_	_
42	stately	stately	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	edifice	edifice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
44	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	47	advmod	_	_
45	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
46	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	47	aux:pass	_	_
47	planted	plant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	43	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow up** | past · perfect | palace |  |  | the earth |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out earth=Location |
| 2 | **take** | past · perfect · passive |  | it |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme host=Destination |
| 3 | **make** | past |  | the matter |  |  |  | no seed of this edifice *obl*; strange *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material matter=Product |
| 4 | **plant** | past · perfect · passive |  | this edifice *not said here* |  |  | ever |  | 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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