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title: So she quickly left the field in which she had been so busy; and, as… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So she quickly left the field in which she had been so busy; and, as her work was not half done, the grain looked, next day, as if it needed both sun and rain, and as if it were blighted in the ear, and had something the matter with its roots. Who acts: girl, grain. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» 
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 50

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So she quickly left the field in which she had been so busy; and, as her work was not half done, the grain looked, next day, as if it needed both sun and rain, and as if it were blighted in the ear, and had something the matter with its roots.

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**Who acts:** girl, grain · **What happens:** leave, be, not do, look, need, blight · **To what, where:** field, work, sun, grain, ear, something

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, grain), 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:pg976:21:50
# text = So she quickly left the field in which she had been so busy; and, as her work was not half done, the grain looked, next day, as if it needed both sun and rain, and as if it were blighted in the ear, and had something the matter with its roots.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obl	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	cop	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	23	advmod	_	_
23	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
36	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	37	det	_	_
37	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
42	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
43	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj:pass	_	_
45	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux:pass	_	_
46	blighted	blight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	conj	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
53	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	52	obj	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	_
56	with	with	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	58	nmod:poss	_	_
58	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | girl | the field |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past · perfect | girl |  |  | the field |  | busy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **do** | past · passive |  | girl's work |  |  |  | half *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 4 | **look** | past | the grain |  |  |  | day |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **need** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | grain | both sun and rain |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sun=Theme |
| 6 | **blight** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive |  | grain |  | the ear |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 7 | **have** | past | girl *not said here* | something |  |  |  | with grain's roots | tree rules |
| 8 | **work** |  | girl |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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