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title: Quicksilver accordingly made the best of his way to the great gate,… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Quicksilver accordingly made the best of his way to the great gate, took a flying leap right over the three-headed mastiff, and stood at the door of the palace in an inconceivably short time. Who acts: Quicksilver. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 48

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Quicksilver accordingly made the best of his way to the great gate, took a flying leap right over the three-headed mastiff, and stood at the door of the palace in an inconceivably short time.

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**Who acts:** Quicksilver · **What happens:** make, take, fly, stand · **To what, where:** flying leap, door

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Quicksilver), 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:pg976:23:48
# text = Quicksilver accordingly made the best of his way to the great gate, took a flying leap right over the three-headed mastiff, and stood at the door of the palace in an inconceivably short time.
1	Quicksilver	quicksilver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	accordingly	accordingly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	xcomp	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	amod	_	_
17	leap	leap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	right	right	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
19	over	over	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	headed	headed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	mastiff	mastiff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	inconceivably	inconceivably	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **make** | past | Quicksilver |  |  |  |  | accordingly, good *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **take** | past |  | a flying leap |  |  |  | over the headed mastiff | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leap=Theme |
| 3 | **fly** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **stand** | past |  |  |  | the door of the palace | time |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location |

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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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