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title: These feathers were the steel-headed arrows that had so tormented th… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: These feathers were the steel-headed arrows that had so tormented them. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 64

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These feathers were the steel-headed arrows that had so tormented them.

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**What happens:** head, torment · **To what, where:** headed arrows

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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: 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:pg976:27:64
# text = These feathers were the steel-headed arrows that had so tormented them.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	steel	steel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	headed	head	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	tormented	torment	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **head** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **torment** | past · perfect · passive |  | the headed arrows |  |  |  | this feathers *obl* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer they=Result |

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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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