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title: But here were these fifty heroes, pushing, and straining, and growin… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But here were these fifty heroes, pushing, and straining, and growing red in the face, without making the Argo start an inch. Who acts: fifty heroes, growing, Argo. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 18

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But here were these fifty heroes, pushing, and straining, and growing red in the face, without making the Argo start an inch.

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**Who acts:** fifty heroes, growing, Argo · **What happens:** push, strain, grow, make, start · **To what, where:** face, Argo, inch

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fifty heroes, growing, Argo), 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:pg976:27:18
# text = But here were these fifty heroes, pushing, and straining, and growing red in the face, without making the Argo start an inch.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	pushing	push	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	straining	strain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
14	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	csubj	_	_
15	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Argo	Argo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	inch	inch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push** | past · progressive | this fifty heroes |  |  | here |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **strain** | gerund | this fifty heroes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **grow** | gerund |  |  |  | the face |  | red *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in face=Location |
| 4 | **make** | gerund | growing | the Argo |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **start** | infinitive | the Argo *not said here* | a inch |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inch=Eventuality |

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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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