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title: So intensely hot it was, indeed, that it caught a dry tree under whi… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So intensely hot it was, indeed, that it caught a dry tree under which Jason was now standing, and set it all in a light blaze. Who acts: breath, Jason. 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 81

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So intensely hot it was, indeed, that it caught a dry tree under which Jason was now standing, and set it all in a light blaze.

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**Who acts:** breath, Jason · **What happens:** be, catch, stand, set · **To what, where:** dry tree, breath, light blaze

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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 (breath, Jason), 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:pg976:28:81
# text = So intensely hot it was, indeed, that it caught a dry tree under which Jason was now standing, and set it all in a light blaze.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	intensely	intensely	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	under	under	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obl	_	_
17	Jason	Jason	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
20	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	blaze	blaze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | breath |  |  |  |  | hot, indeed, intensely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **catch** | past | breath | a dry tree |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme |
| 3 | **stand** | past · progressive | Jason |  |  | a dry tree | now |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under which=Location |
| 4 | **set** | infinitive | breath *not said here* | breath |  | a light blaze |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in blaze=Destination |

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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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