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title: When he was half way across, the uprooted tree (which I have already… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When he was half way across, the uprooted tree (which I have already told you about) broke loose from among the rocks, and bore down upon him, with all its splintered branches sticking out like the hundred arms of the giant Briareus. Who acts: Jason, uprooted tree, splintered branches. A sentence of
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 68

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When he was half way across, the uprooted tree (which I have already told you about) broke loose from among the rocks, and bore down upon him, with all its splintered branches sticking out like the hundred arms of the giant Briareus.

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**Who acts:** Jason, uprooted tree, splintered branches · **What happens:** be, uproot, tell, break, bear down, splinter · **To what, where:** half way, uprooted tree, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jason, uprooted tree, splintered branches), 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:pg976:25:68
# text = When he was half way across, the uprooted tree (which I have already told you about) broke loose from among the rocks, and bore down upon him, with all its splintered branches sticking out like the hundred arms of the giant Briareus.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	half	half	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	5	amod	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
6	across	across	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	uprooted	uproot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	already	already	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	appos	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	iobj	_	_
18	about	about	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
20	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	loose	loose	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	among	among	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
29	down	down	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	37	det:predet	_	_
35	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
36	splintered	splinter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	amod	_	_
37	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
38	sticking	stick	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	37	acl	_	_
39	out	out	ADP	RP	_	38	compound:prt	_	_
40	like	like	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	43	nummod	_	_
43	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	Briareus	Briareus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Jason | half way |  |  |  | across *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **uproot** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · perfect · passive |  | the uprooted tree | you |  |  | about *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient you=Topic |
| 4 | **break** | past | the uprooted tree |  |  |  |  | from the rocks; loose *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from rock=Co-Patient |
| 5 | **bear down** | past | the uprooted tree *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon Jason; with way's splintered branches; down *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **splinter** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **stick out** | gerund | way's splintered branches *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like the hundred arms of the giant Briareus | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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