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title: But still the poor child screamed, and scattered her apron full of f… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But still the poor child screamed, and scattered her apron full of flowers along the way, and left a long cry trailing behind the chariot; and many mothers, to whose ears it came, ran quickly to see if any mischief had befallen their children. Who acts: poor child, long cry, cry, many mothers. A sen
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 69

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But still the poor child screamed, and scattered her apron full of flowers along the way, and left a long cry trailing behind the chariot; and many mothers, to whose ears it came, ran quickly to see if any mischief had befallen their children.

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**Who acts:** poor child, long cry, cry, many mothers · **What happens:** scream, scatter, leave, trail, come, run · **To what, where:** apron, long cry, chariot, ears, mischief

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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 (poor child, long cry, cry, many mothers), 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:pg976:20:69
# text = But still the poor child screamed, and scattered her apron full of flowers along the way, and left a long cry trailing behind the chariot; and many mothers, to whose ears it came, ran quickly to see if any mischief had befallen their children.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	screamed	scream	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	scattered	scatter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	apron	apron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
15	along	along	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	trailing	trail	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
25	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
30	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	mothers	mother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
39	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
40	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	advcl	_	_
43	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
44	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	45	det	_	_
45	mischief	mischief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj:pass	_	_
46	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	befallen	befall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	ccomp	_	_
48	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **scream** *speech: express* | participle | the poor child |  |  |  | still |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **scatter** | past | the poor child *not said here* | child's apron |  |  |  | full *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent apron=Theme |
| 3 | **leave** | past | the poor child *not said here* | a long cry |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Theme |
| 4 | **trail** | gerund | a long cry *not said here* |  |  | the chariot |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent behind chariot=Trajectory |
| 5 | **come** | past | cry | many mothers and many mothers and ears's ears's ears *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ear=Theme |
| 6 | **run** | past | many mothers and many mothers and many mothers's ears's ears |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **see** | to-infinitive | many mothers and many mothers and many mothers's ears's ears *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 8 | **befall** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive |  | any mischief |  |  |  |  | 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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