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title: Next were seen their bright breastplates; in every right hand there… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Next were seen their bright breastplates; in every right hand there was a sword or a spear, and on each left arm a shield; and when this strange crop of warriors had but half grown out of the earth, they struggled--such was their impatience of restraint--and, as it were, tore themselves up by the ro
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 101

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Next were seen their bright breastplates; in every right hand there was a sword or a spear, and on each left arm a shield; and when this strange crop of warriors had but half grown out of the earth, they struggled--such was their impatience of restraint--and, as it were, tore themselves up by the roots.

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**Who acts:** strange crop, helmets, crop · **What happens:** see, be, leave, have, grow out, struggle · **To what, where:** bright breastplates, sword, right hand, earth, such impatience, helmets

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strange crop, helmets, crop), 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:pg976:28:101
# text = Next were seen their bright breastplates; in every right hand there was a sword or a spear, and on each left arm a shield; and when this strange crop of warriors had but half grown out of the earth, they struggled--such was their impatience of restraint--and, as it were, tore themselves up by the roots.
1	Next	next	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	breastplates	breastplate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
10	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
23	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	shield	shield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
29	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	35	advmod	_	_
30	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
31	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	crop	crop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
35	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
36	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	38	advmod	_	_
38	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	conj	_	_
39	out	out	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	struggled	struggle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
48	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	cop	_	_
49	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	impatience	impatience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	restraint	restraint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
56	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
57	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
58	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	60	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
60	tore	tore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
61	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	60	obj	_	_
62	up	up	ADP	RP	_	60	compound:prt	_	_
63	by	by	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
64	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	65	det	_	_
65	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	60	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past · passive |  | helmets's bright breastplates |  |  |  | next *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: breastplate=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | a sword or a spear and a arm shield |  | every right hand |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **leave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | past | this strange crop of warriors |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **grow out** | participle | this strange crop of warriors *not said here* | the earth |  |  |  | half *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location earth=Theme |
| 6 | **struggle** | past | helmets *= helmet* |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is a** | past |  | helmets's such impatience |  |  |  | of restraint | tree rules |
| 8 | **be** | past | crop |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **tore up** | past | this strange crop of warriors *not said here* | helmets *= helmet* |  |  |  | by the roots | tree rules |

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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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