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title: They are better than mountains, because they do not stamp and stereo… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They are better than mountains, because they do not stamp and stereotype themselves into the brain, and thus grow wearisome with the same strong impression, repeated day after day. Who acts: eminences. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Wayside. Introductory., with its depe
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 9

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They are better than mountains, because they do not stamp and stereotype themselves into the brain, and thus grow wearisome with the same strong impression, repeated day after day.

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**Who acts:** eminences · **What happens:** be, not stamp, stereotype, grow, repeat · **To what, where:** eminences, brain, wearisome

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Wayside. Introductory.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eminences), 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:pg976:2:9
# text = They are better than mountains, because they do not stamp and stereotype themselves into the brain, and thus grow wearisome with the same strong impression, repeated day after day.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
4	than	than	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	stamp	stamp	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	stereotype	stereotype	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
14	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
22	wearisome	wearisome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	impression	impression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	amod	_	_
30	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
31	after	after	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	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 | **is** | present | eminences *= eminence* |  |  |  |  | than mountains; good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **stamp** | present · do-support | eminences *= eminence* |  |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stereotype** | infinitive | eminences *= eminence* *not said here* | eminences *= eminence* |  | the brain |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme |
| 4 | **grow** | present | eminences *= eminence* *not said here* | wearisome |  |  |  | with the same strong impression; thus *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent wearisome=Patient with impression=Instrument |
| 5 | **repeat** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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