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title: They made a clangor with their swords against their shields, and eye… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They made a clangor with their swords against their shields, and eyed one another fiercely; for they had come into this beautiful world, and into the peaceful moonlight, full of rage and stormy passions, and ready to take the life of every human brother, in recompense of the boon of their own existe
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 103

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They made a clangor with their swords against their shields, and eyed one another fiercely; for they had come into this beautiful world, and into the peaceful moonlight, full of rage and stormy passions, and ready to take the life of every human brother, in recompense of the boon of their own existence.

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**Who acts:** teeth, clangor · **What happens:** make, eye, come, take, recompense, exist · **To what, where:** clangor, one, beautiful world, life, boon

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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 (teeth, clangor), 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:pg976:28:103
# text = They made a clangor with their swords against their shields, and eyed one another fiercely; for they had come into this beautiful world, and into the peaceful moonlight, full of rage and stormy passions, and ready to take the life of every human brother, in recompense of the boon of their own existence.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	clangor	clangor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	swords	sword	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	against	against	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	shields	shield	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	eyed	eye	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	obj	_	_
15	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	fixed	_	_
16	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
24	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	peaceful	peaceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	stormy	stormy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	passions	passion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	xcomp	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	49	det	_	_
48	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	in	in	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	recompense	recompense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	boon	boon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
57	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	59	nmod:poss	_	_
58	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	existence	existence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | teeth *= tooth* | a clangor |  |  |  | with teeth's swords against teeth's shields | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset clangor=Product |
| 2 | **eye** | past | teeth *= tooth* *not said here* | one |  |  |  | fiercely *property* | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
| 3 | **come** | past · perfect | teeth *= tooth* |  |  | this beautiful world |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into world=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **take** | to-infinitive | a clangor *not said here* | the life of every human brother |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument life=Theme recompense=Destination |
| 5 | **recompense** |  |  | the boon of teeth's own existence |  |  |  |  | nom recompense «possession transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **exist** |  | teeth *= tooth* |  |  |  |  |  | nom existence «state intransitive»: poss=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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