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title: The grass and the grain began to sprout with tenfold vigor and luxur… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The grass and the grain began to sprout with tenfold vigor and luxuriance, to make up for the dreary months that had been wasted in barrenness. Who acts: grass. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 37

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The grass and the grain began to sprout with tenfold vigor and luxuriance, to make up for the dreary months that had been wasted in barrenness.

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**Who acts:** grass · **What happens:** begin, sprout, make up, waste · **To what, where:** dreary months, barrenness

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grass), 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:pg976:24:37
# text = The grass and the grain began to sprout with tenfold vigor and luxuriance, to make up for the dreary months that had been wasted in barrenness.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	sprout	sprout	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	tenfold	tenfold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	vigor	vigor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	luxuriance	luxuriance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	dreary	dreary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	wasted	waste	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	barrenness	barrenness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | the grass and the grain |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **sprout** | to-infinitive | the grass and the grain *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with tenfold vigor and luxuriance | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with vigor=Theme |
| 3 | **make up** | to-infinitive | the grass and the grain *not said here* |  |  |  | month |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **waste** | past · perfect · passive |  | the dreary months |  | barrenness |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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