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title: Immediately after escaping from this peril, a still greater one had… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Immediately after escaping from this peril, a still greater one had befallen him. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 6

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Immediately after escaping from this peril, a still greater one had befallen him.

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**What happens:** escape, befall · **To what, where:** peril, greater one

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 1. 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:pg976:15:6
# text = Immediately after escaping from this peril, a still greater one had befallen him.
1	Immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	escaping	escape	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	peril	peril	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	still	still	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	befallen	befall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **escape** | gerund |  |  |  | this peril |  | immediately *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from peril=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **befall** | past · perfect · passive |  | a greater one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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