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title: Some of them had already fought with giants, and slain dragons; and… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Some of them had already fought with giants, and slain dragons; and the younger ones, who had not yet met with such good fortune, thought it a shame to have lived so long without getting astride of a flying serpent, or sticking their spears into a Chimaera, or, at least, thrusting their right arms d
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 108

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Some of them had already fought with giants, and slain dragons; and the younger ones, who had not yet met with such good fortune, thought it a shame to have lived so long without getting astride of a flying serpent, or sticking their spears into a Chimaera, or, at least, thrusting their right arms down a monstrous lion's throat.

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**Who acts:** Some, younger ones · **What happens:** fight, not meet, think, live, get, fly · **To what, where:** slain dragons, fortune, astride, spears, right arms, least

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Some, younger ones), 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:pg976:26:108
# text = Some of them had already fought with giants, and slain dragons; and the younger ones, who had not yet met with such good fortune, thought it a shame to have lived so long without getting astride of a flying serpent, or sticking their spears into a Chimaera, or, at least, thrusting their right arms down a monstrous lion's throat.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	already	already	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	fought	fight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	slain	slain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	dragons	dragon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
17	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	acl:relcl	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
34	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	aux	_	_
35	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	32	acl	_	_
36	so	so	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	35	advmod	_	_
38	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
39	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	advcl	_	_
40	astride	astride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	44	amod	_	_
44	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	sticking	stick	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	39	conj	_	_
48	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	spears	spear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obj	_	_
50	into	into	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	Chimaera	Chimaera	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
54	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
56	at	at	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	59	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
59	thrusting	thrust	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
60	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	62	nmod:poss	_	_
61	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	amod	_	_
62	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	59	obj	_	_
63	down	down	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	_
64	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	66	det	_	_
65	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	66	amod	_	_
66	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	68	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	's	's	PART	POS	_	66	case	_	_
68	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** | past · perfect | Some | slain dragons |  |  |  | with giants; the younger ones *obl* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with giant=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **not** **meet** | past · perfect | the younger ones |  |  |  | yet | with such good fortune | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with fortune=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past |  | fortune |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme shame=Attribute |
| 4 | **live** | to-infinitive · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **get** | gerund |  | astride of a flying serpent |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer astride=Stimulus |
| 6 | **fly** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **stick** | gerund |  | dangers's spears |  |  |  | into a Chimaera | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent spear=Theme into chimaera=Destination |
| 8 | **thrust** | gerund |  | dangers's right arms |  | least |  | down *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent arm=Destination throat=Theme |

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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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