--- title: At any rate, our hero succeeded perfectly well in breaking up the gr… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: At any rate, our hero succeeded perfectly well in breaking up the greensward; and, by the time that the moon was a quarter of her journey up the sky, the plowed field lay before him, a large tract of black earth, ready to be sown with the dragon's teeth. Who acts: hero, moon. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hero, moon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg976:28:90 # text = At any rate, our hero succeeded perfectly well in breaking up the greensward; and, by the time that the moon was a quarter of her journey up the sky, the plowed field lay before him, a large tract of black earth, ready to be sown with the dragon's teeth. 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 3 det _ _ 3 rate rate NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 hero hero NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 succeeded succeed VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 perfectly perfectly ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 8 fixed _ _ 10 in in SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 11 breaking break VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 12 up up ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 greensward greensward NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 18 by by ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 21 that that SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 quarter quarter NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 up up ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 plowed plow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 amod _ _ 36 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 37 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 38 before before ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 tract tract NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 48 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 advcl _ _ 49 to to PART TO _ 51 mark _ _ 50 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 51 aux:pass _ _ 51 sown sow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 48 xcomp _ _ 52 with with ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 55 's 's PART POS _ 54 case _ _ 56 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 51 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 57 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **succeed** | past | our hero | | | any rate | | perfectly *property* | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **break up** | gerund | our hero *not said here* | the greensward | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greensward=Patient | | 3 | **is a** | past | the moon | a quarter and the plowed field | | | | of moon's journey up the sky | tree rules | | 4 | **plow** | participle | | | | | | | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **lay** | present | | a large tract of black earth | | | before hero; time | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before he=Destination | | 6 | **sow** | to-infinitive · passive | | | | | | with the dragon's teeth | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: with tooth=Theme | | 7 | **journey** | | moon | | | | | up the sky | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent up=obl | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/28/89/) - next →: [sentence 91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/28/91/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Fleece., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/28/)