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title: As well as I could judge, a dragon, or some other cruel monster, was… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As well as I could judge, a dragon, or some other cruel monster, was carrying her away." Who acts: I, some. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 17

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As well as I could judge, a dragon, or some other cruel monster, was carrying her away."

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**Who acts:** I, some · **What happens:** judge, monster, carry away · **To what, where:** dragon, monster

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, some), 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:pg976:22:17
# text = As well as I could judge, a dragon, or some other cruel monster, was carrying her away."
1	As	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	6	cc	_	_
2	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	fixed	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	judge	judge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	nsubj	_	_
13	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	away	away	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **judge** | could | I | a dragon or other cruel monster |  |  |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent dragon=Value |
| 2 | **monster** |  | some |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **carry away** | past · progressive | I *not said here* | monster |  |  |  | away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |

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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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