--- title: And then, again, only a few days ago, did we not fall into the hands… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And then, again, only a few days ago, did we not fall into the hands of the king of the Laestrygons, and those other horrible giants, his subjects, who devoured a great many more of us than are now left? Who acts: we, other horrible giants. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, other horrible giants), 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:pg976:15:56 # text = And then, again, only a few days ago, did we not fall into the hands of the king of the Laestrygons, and those other horrible giants, his subjects, who devoured a great many more of us than are now left? 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 2 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 again again ADV RB _ 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 only only ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl:unmarked _ _ 10 ago ago ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 fall fall VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 16 into into ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 Laestrygons Laestrygon PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 27 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 30 det _ _ 28 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 29 horrible horrible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 giants giant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 subjects subject NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 36 devoured devour VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 38 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 advcl _ _ 39 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 nsubj:pass _ _ 40 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 39 conj _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 obl _ _ 43 than than ADP IN _ 40 fixed _ _ 44 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 aux:pass _ _ 45 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 46 advmod _ _ 46 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ? ? PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | | | | | then | ago *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **fall** | present | we | | | | | into the hands of the king of the Laestrygons *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into hand=Result | | 3 | **devour** | past | that other horrible giants | Polyphemus's subjects | | | | | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **leave** | present · passive | | many | | | now | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/15/55/) - next →: [sentence 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/15/57/) - ↑ back to [Circe's Palace., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/15/)