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title: Just as the brazen brutes fancied themselves sure of tossing him int… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Just as the brazen brutes fancied themselves sure of tossing him into the air, he caught one of them by the horn, and the other by his screwed-up tail, and held them in a gripe like that of an iron vice, one with his right hand, the other with his left. Who acts: brazen brutes, Jason, iron vice. A s
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 84

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Just as the brazen brutes fancied themselves sure of tossing him into the air, he caught one of them by the horn, and the other by his screwed-up tail, and held them in a gripe like that of an iron vice, one with his right hand, the other with his left.

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**Who acts:** brazen brutes, Jason, iron vice · **What happens:** fancy, toss, catch, screw up, hold, gripe · **To what, where:** brutes, Jason, air, one, gripe

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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 (brazen brutes, Jason, iron vice), 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:pg976:28:84
# text = Just as the brazen brutes fancied themselves sure of tossing him into the air, he caught one of them by the horn, and the other by his screwed-up tail, and held them in a gripe like that of an iron vice, one with his right hand, the other with his left.
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	brazen	brazen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	brutes	brute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	fancied	fancy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obj	_	_
8	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
9	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	tossing	toss	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	parataxis	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
30	screwed	screw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	up	up	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
33	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
37	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	gripe	gripe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
41	like	like	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	40	nmod	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	vice	vice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
48	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	46	appos	_	_
49	with	with	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
51	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	parataxis	_	_
56	with	with	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	58	nmod:poss	_	_
58	left	left	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fancy** | past | the brazen brutes | brutes *= brute* |  |  |  | sure *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer themselves=Stimulus |
| 2 | **toss** | gerund | the brazen brutes *not said here* | Jason |  | the air |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Patient into air=Recipient |
| 3 | **catch** | past | Jason | one of brutes |  |  |  | by the horn | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 4 | **screw up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **hold** | past | the brazen brutes *not said here* | brutes *= brute* |  | a gripe like that of a iron vice |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in gripe=Location |
| 6 | **gripe** |  | a iron vice |  |  |  |  | like that | nom gripe «communication intransitive»: like=obl of=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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