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title: The mastiff of which he had spoken got up from the threshold, and st… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The mastiff of which he had spoken got up from the threshold, and stood on his hinder legs, so as to put his fore paws on the chariot wheel. Who acts: mastiff. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 122

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The mastiff of which he had spoken got up from the threshold, and stood on his hinder legs, so as to put his fore paws on the chariot wheel.

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**Who acts:** mastiff · **What happens:** speak, get up, stand, put · **To what, where:** threshold, hinder legs, fore paws, chariot wheel · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mastiff), 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:pg976:20:122
# text = The mastiff of which he had spoken got up from the threshold, and stood on his hinder legs, so as to put his fore paws on the chariot wheel.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mastiff	mastiff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl:relcl	_	_
9	up	up	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	threshold	threshold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	hinder	hinder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	fore	fore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	paws	paw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **get up** | past · perfect | mastiff |  |  | the threshold |  | of the mastiff | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme of which=Initial\_Location from threshold=Destination |
| 3 | **stand** | past | the mastiff |  |  | mastiff's hinder legs |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location |
| 4 | **put** | to-infinitive | the mastiff *not said here* | mastiff's fore paws |  | the chariot wheel |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent paw=Theme on wheel=Destination |

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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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