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title: The fifty heroes started up, and looked about them for the hidden en… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The fifty heroes started up, and looked about them for the hidden enemy, but could find none, nor see any spot, on the whole island, where even a single archer could lie concealed. Who acts: fifty heroes, single archer. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., par
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 62

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The fifty heroes started up, and looked about them for the hidden enemy, but could find none, nor see any spot, on the whole island, where even a single archer could lie concealed.

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**Who acts:** fifty heroes, single archer · **What happens:** start up, look, find, see, lie, conceal · **To what, where:** none, spot, whole island

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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, single archer), 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:pg976:27:62
# text = The fifty heroes started up, and looked about them for the hidden enemy, but could find none, nor see any spot, on the whole island, where even a single archer could lie concealed.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
19	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	22	cc	_	_
22	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
23	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
24	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
31	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	37	advmod	_	_
32	even	even	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	archer	archer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
36	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
38	concealed	conceal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start up** | past | the fifty heroes |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **look** | past | the fifty heroes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about heroes *= hero*; for the hidden enemy | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent about they=Location for enemy=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | could |  | none |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Topic |
| 4 | **see** | infinitive |  | any spot |  | the whole island |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spot=Stimulus |
| 5 | **lie** | could | a single archer |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **conceal** | participle | a single archer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=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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