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title: They leaped out of the bottomless hole, chariot and all; and there t… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They leaped out of the bottomless hole, chariot and all; and there they were, tossing their black manes, flourishing their black tails, and curvetting with every one of their hoofs off the ground at once, close by the spot where Proserpina stood. Who acts: horses, Proserpina. A sentence of «Tanglewo
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 50

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They leaped out of the bottomless hole, chariot and all; and there they were, tossing their black manes, flourishing their black tails, and curvetting with every one of their hoofs off the ground at once, close by the spot where Proserpina stood.

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**Who acts:** horses, Proserpina · **What happens:** leap out, toss, flourish, curvet, stand · **To what, where:** bottomless hole, black manes, black tails

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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 (horses, Proserpina), 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:pg976:20:50
# text = They leaped out of the bottomless hole, chariot and all; and there they were, tossing their black manes, flourishing their black tails, and curvetting with every one of their hoofs off the ground at once, close by the spot where Proserpina stood.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	leaped	leap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	bottomless	bottomless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	tossing	toss	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	manes	manis	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	flourishing	flourish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	curvetting	curvet	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	det	_	_
32	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	hoofs	hoof	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
36	off	off	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
39	at	at	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
43	by	by	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
46	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	48	advmod	_	_
47	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
48	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **leap out** | past | horses *= horse* | the bottomless hole and chariot |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hole=Trajectory |
| 2 | **toss** | past · progressive | horses *= horse* | horses's black manes |  | there |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manis=Patient |
| 3 | **flourish** | gerund | horses *= horse* *not said here* | horses's black tails |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **curvet** | gerund | horses *= horse* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with every one of horses's hoofs; off the ground | tree rules |
| 5 | **stand** | past | Proserpina |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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