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title: The stone glanced from this man's helmet to the shield of his neares… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The stone glanced from this man's helmet to the shield of his nearest comrade, and thence flew right into the angry face of another, hitting him smartly between the eyes. Who acts: stone. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 5, with its dependency tree an
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 16

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The stone glanced from this man's helmet to the shield of his nearest comrade, and thence flew right into the angry face of another, hitting him smartly between the eyes.

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**Who acts:** stone · **What happens:** glance, fly, hit · **To what, where:** angry face, Jason, eyes

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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 (stone), 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:pg976:29:16
# text = The stone glanced from this man's helmet to the shield of his nearest comrade, and thence flew right into the angry face of another, hitting him smartly between the eyes.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	glanced	glance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	helmet	helmet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	shield	shield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
15	comrade	comrade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	thence	thence	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
20	right	right	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	hitting	hit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	smartly	smartly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
31	between	between	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glance** | past | the stone |  |  |  |  | to the shield of Jason's nearest comrade; from this man's helmet | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from helmet=Theme |
| 2 | **fly** | past |  | the angry face of another |  |  |  | thence *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location face=Theme |
| 3 | **hit** | gerund |  | Jason |  | the eyes |  | smartly *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme between eye=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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