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title: The starved cattle immediately set to work grazing, after their long… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The starved cattle immediately set to work grazing, after their long fast, and ate enormously, all day, and got up at midnight to eat more. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 38

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The starved cattle immediately set to work grazing, after their long fast, and ate enormously, all day, and got up at midnight to eat more.

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**What happens:** starve, work, graze, eat, get up · **To what, where:** more

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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: 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:pg976:24:38
# text = The starved cattle immediately set to work grazing, after their long fast, and ate enormously, all day, and got up at midnight to eat more.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	starved	starve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	set	set	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
8	grazing	graze	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
13	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
17	enormously	enormously	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
29	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **starve** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **graze** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **eat** | past |  |  |  |  | day | enormously *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **get up** | past |  |  |  |  | midnight |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **eat** | to-infinitive |  | more |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=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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