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title: Forthwith the fifty heroes set heartily to work, banging with might… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Forthwith the fifty heroes set heartily to work, banging with might and main, and raised such a terrible clatter, that the birds made what haste they could to get away; and though they had shot half the feathers out of their wings, they were soon seen skimming among the clouds, a long distance off, 
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 3, sentence 72

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Forthwith the fifty heroes set heartily to work, banging with might and main, and raised such a terrible clatter, that the birds made what haste they could to get away; and though they had shot half the feathers out of their wings, they were soon seen skimming among the clouds, a long distance off, and looking like a flock of wild geese.

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**Who acts:** birds · **What happens:** set, work, bang, raise, make, get away · **To what, where:** fifty heroes, terrible clatter, birds, wings

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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 (birds), 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:pg976:27:72
# text = Forthwith the fifty heroes set heartily to work, banging with might and main, and raised such a terrible clatter, that the birds made what haste they could to get away; and though they had shot half the feathers out of their wings, they were soon seen skimming among the clouds, a long distance off, and looking like a flock of wild geese.
1	Forthwith	forthwith	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
5	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	heartily	heartily	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	banging	bang	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	21	det:predet	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	clatter	clatter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
27	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	26	obj	_	_
28	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	advcl	_	_
33	away	away	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
36	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
37	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	shot	shoot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	_
40	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	42	det:predet	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obj	_	_
43	out	out	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
48	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
49	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux:pass	_	_
50	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	51	advmod	_	_
51	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	conj	_	_
52	skimming	skim	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	51	xcomp	_	_
53	among	among	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
57	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
58	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	conj	_	_
60	off	off	ADP	RP	_	52	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
62	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	63	cc	_	_
63	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	51	advcl	_	_
64	like	like	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
65	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	66	det	_	_
66	flock	flock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	obl	_	_
67	of	of	ADP	IN	_	69	case	_	_
68	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	69	amod	_	_
69	geese	goose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	66	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | participle |  | the fifty heroes *not said here* |  |  |  | heartily *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **work** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bang** | might |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **raise** | past |  | such terrible clatter |  |  |  | forthwith the fifty heroes | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clatter=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | past | the birds |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Product |
| 6 | **get away** | to-infinitive | the birds *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **shoot** | past · perfect · passive |  | birds *= bird* |  | birds's wings |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination feather=Theme |
| 8 | **see** | past · passive |  | birds *= bird* |  |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **skim off** | gerund | birds *= bird* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | among the clouds and a long distance | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | like a flock of wild geese | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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