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title: Wherever a dragon's tooth had fallen, there stood a man armed for ba… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Wherever a dragon's tooth had fallen, there stood a man armed for battle. Who acts: tooth, man. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 102

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Wherever a dragon's tooth had fallen, there stood a man armed for battle.

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**Who acts:** tooth, man · **What happens:** fall, stand, arm · **To what, where:** man

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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 (tooth, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg976:2184`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg976:28:102
# text = Wherever a dragon's tooth had fallen, there stood a man armed for battle.
1	Wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
10	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
13	armed	arm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past · perfect | a dragon's tooth |  |  |  |  | wherever *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past | a man |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **arm** | participle |  | a man *not said here* |  |  |  | for battle | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: 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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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