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title: In an incredibly short space of time (almost as short, indeed, as it… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In an incredibly short space of time (almost as short, indeed, as it had taken them to grow up), all but one of the heroes of the dragon's teeth were stretched lifeless on the field. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 5, with its dependency tree and the
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 19

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In an incredibly short space of time (almost as short, indeed, as it had taken them to grow up), all but one of the heroes of the dragon's teeth were stretched lifeless on the field.

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**What happens:** take, grow up, stretch · **To what, where:** it, one

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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: 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:pg976:29:19
# text = In an incredibly short space of time (almost as short, indeed, as it had taken them to grow up), all but one of the heroes of the dragon's teeth were stretched lifeless on the field.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	incredibly	incredibly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	nsubj	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	's	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
36	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
38	lifeless	lifeless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	xcomp	_	_
39	on	on	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	37	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past · perfect · passive |  | it |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme they=Destination |
| 2 | **grow up** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stretch** | past · passive |  | one of the heroes of the dragon's teeth |  |  |  | on the field; in a short space of time; lifeless *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: subject=Patient in space=Topic |

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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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