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title: Immortal fame!" when he himself fell down, and lay quietly among his… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Immortal fame!" when he himself fell down, and lay quietly among his slain brethren. Who acts: Immortal fame. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 22

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Immortal fame!" when he himself fell down, and lay quietly among his slain brethren.

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**Who acts:** Immortal fame · **What happens:** fall down, lay · **To what, where:** slain brethren

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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 (Immortal fame), 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:pg976:29:22
# text = Immortal fame!" when he himself fell down, and lay quietly among his slain brethren.
1	Immortal	immortal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	fame	fame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	6	nmod:unmarked	_	_
8	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	down	down	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
13	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	among	among	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	slain	slain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall down** *in a quote* | past | Immortal fame |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lay** *in a quote* | infinitive | Immortal fame *not said here* |  |  | fame's slain brethren |  | quietly *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent among brethren=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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