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title: Immediately, with an outrageous hiss and a tremendous wriggle--fling… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Immediately, with an outrageous hiss and a tremendous wriggle--flinging his tail up to the tip-top of the tallest tree, and shattering all its branches as it crashed heavily down again--the dragon fell at full length upon the ground, and lay quite motionless. Who acts: tremendous wriggle, dragon, ta
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 100

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Immediately, with an outrageous hiss and a tremendous wriggle--flinging his tail up to the tip-top of the tallest tree, and shattering all its branches as it crashed heavily down again--the dragon fell at full length upon the ground, and lay quite motionless.

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**Who acts:** tremendous wriggle, dragon, tail · **What happens:** fling up, shatter, crash, fall, lie · **To what, where:** tail, tip top, branches, full length

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tremendous wriggle, dragon, tail), 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:pg976:29:100
# text = Immediately, with an outrageous hiss and a tremendous wriggle--flinging his tail up to the tip-top of the tallest tree, and shattering all its branches as it crashed heavily down again--the dragon fell at full length upon the ground, and lay quite motionless.
1	Immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	outrageous	outrageous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	hiss	hiss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	tremendous	tremendous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	wriggle	wriggle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	flinging	fling	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	tip	tip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	tallest	tall	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	24	amod	_	_
24	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	shattering	shatter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
28	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	30	det:predet	_	_
29	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
31	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	crashed	crash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
34	heavily	heavily	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	down	down	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
36	again	again	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
40	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
41	at	at	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
44	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	conj	_	_
50	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
51	motionless	motionless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	40	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fling up** | gerund | a tremendous wriggle *not said here* | monster's tail |  | the tip top of the tallest tree |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent tail=Theme to top=Destination |
| 2 | **shatter** | gerund | the dragon *not said here* | tree's branches |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Patient |
| 3 | **crash** | past | tail |  |  |  | again | down *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **fall** | past | the dragon |  |  | full length |  | with a outrageous hiss and a tremendous wriggle; upon the ground; immediately *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at length=Location |
| 5 | **lie** | past | the dragon *not said here* |  |  |  |  | motionless *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: 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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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