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title: And so, when his scholars had grown up, and grown old, and were trot… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And so, when his scholars had grown up, and grown old, and were trotting their grandchildren on their knees, they told them about the sports of their school days; and these young folks took the idea that their grandfathers had been taught their letters by a Centaur, half man and half horse. Who acts
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 8

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And so, when his scholars had grown up, and grown old, and were trotting their grandchildren on their knees, they told them about the sports of their school days; and these young folks took the idea that their grandfathers had been taught their letters by a Centaur, half man and half horse.

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**Who acts:** scholars, young folks, Centaur, school days · **What happens:** grow up, grow, trot, tell, take, teach · **To what, where:** grandchildren, knees, idea, grandfathers · **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 (scholars, young folks, Centaur, school days), 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:pg976:25:8
# text = And so, when his scholars had grown up, and grown old, and were trotting their grandchildren on their knees, they told them about the sports of their school days; and these young folks took the idea that their grandfathers had been taught their letters by a Centaur, half man and half horse.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	scholars	scholar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	trotting	trot	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	grandchildren	grandchild	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	iobj	_	_
27	about	about	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	sports	sport	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
36	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	38	det	_	_
37	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	folks	folk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
39	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
43	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	grandfathers	grandfather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nsubj:pass	_	_
45	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
46	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	47	aux:pass	_	_
47	taught	teach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	advcl	_	_
48	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obj	_	_
50	by	by	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	Centaur	Centaur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
54	half	half	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	55	amod	_	_
55	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	appos	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
57	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	58	compound	_	_
58	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow up** | past · perfect | boy's scholars |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | participle | boy's scholars *not said here* |  |  |  |  | old *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **trot** | past · progressive | boy's scholars *not said here* | scholars's grandchildren |  | scholars's knees |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent grandchild=Theme on knee=Trajectory |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | scholars *= scholar* |  | grandchildren *= grandchild* |  |  | about the sports of scholars's school days | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient about sport=Topic |
| 5 | **take** | past | this young folks | the idea |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Theme |
| 6 | **teach** *speech: other* | past · perfect · passive | a Centaur | scholars's grandfathers |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient letter=Topic |
| 7 | **sport** |  | scholars's school days |  |  |  |  |  | nom sport «act intransitive»: of=agent |
| 8 | **letter** |  | scholars *= scholar* |  |  |  |  |  | nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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