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title: And so it turned out; for, hardly was the table set, before the thre… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And so it turned out; for, hardly was the table set, before the three hideous vulture women came flapping their wings, seized the food in their talons, and flew off as fast as they could. Who acts: scent, vulture women. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., par
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 56

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And so it turned out; for, hardly was the table set, before the three hideous vulture women came flapping their wings, seized the food in their talons, and flew off as fast as they could.

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**Who acts:** scent, vulture women · **What happens:** turn out, be, come, flap, seize, fly off · **To what, where:** wings, food, talons

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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 (scent, vulture women), 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:pg976:27:56
# text = And so it turned out; for, hardly was the table set, before the three hideous vulture women came flapping their wings, seized the food in their talons, and flew off as fast as they could.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
18	hideous	hideous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	vulture	vulture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
22	flapping	flap	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	talons	talon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
35	off	off	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
36	as	as	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	34	advmod	_	_
38	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
39	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn out** | past | scent |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | for the table set; hardly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | past | the vulture women |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **flap** | gerund | the vulture women *not said here* | Harpies's wings |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient |
| 5 | **seize** | past | the vulture women *not said here* | the food |  | Harpies's talons |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme |
| 6 | **fly off** | past | the vulture women *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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