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title: Each of these monsters was able to carry on a whole war by himself,… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Each of these monsters was able to carry on a whole war by himself, for with one arm he could fling immense stones, and wield a club with another, and a sword with a third, while the fourth was poking a long spear at the enemy, and the fifth and sixth were shooting him with a bow and arrow. Who acts
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 48

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Each of these monsters was able to carry on a whole war by himself, for with one arm he could fling immense stones, and wield a club with another, and a sword with a third, while the fourth was poking a long spear at the enemy, and the fifth and sixth were shooting him with a bow and arrow.

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**Who acts:** monsters, hereupon, fourth, fifth · **What happens:** be, carry, fling, wield, poke, shoot · **To what, where:** whole war, immense stones, club, long spear, fourth

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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 (monsters, hereupon, fourth, fifth), 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:pg976:27:48
# text = Each of these monsters was able to carry on a whole war by himself, for with one arm he could fling immense stones, and wield a club with another, and a sword with a third, while the fourth was poking a long spear at the enemy, and the fifth and sixth were shooting him with a bow and arrow.
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	monsters	monster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	fling	fling	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
23	immense	immense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	wield	wield	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	club	club	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	third	third	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	fourth	fourth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
43	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	poking	poke	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
48	at	at	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	fifth	fifth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nsubj	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
56	sixth	sixth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	conj	_	_
57	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
58	shooting	shoot	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	44	conj	_	_
59	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	obj	_	_
60	with	with	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obl	_	_
63	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
64	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | each monsters |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **carry** | to-infinitive | each monsters *not said here* |  |  | a whole war |  | by hereupon | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fling** | could | hereupon | immense stones |  |  |  | with one arm | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme |
| 4 | **wield** | infinitive | hereupon *not said here* | a club |  |  |  | with another | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=Theme |
| 5 | **poke** | past · progressive | the fourth | a long spear |  |  |  | at the enemy | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.instrument PP.theme»: agent=Agent spear=Instrument at enemy=Theme |
| 6 | **shoot** | past · progressive | the fifth and sixth | fourth |  |  |  | with a bow and arrow | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with bow=Instrument |

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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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