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title: That fierce and feverish fight was the only enjoyment which they had… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: That fierce and feverish fight was the only enjoyment which they had tasted on this beautiful earth. Who acts: fierce fight. 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 24

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That fierce and feverish fight was the only enjoyment which they had tasted on this beautiful earth.

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**Who acts:** fierce fight · **What happens:** be, taste · **To what, where:** only enjoyment, beautiful earth

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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 (fierce fight), 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:pg976:29:24
# text = That fierce and feverish fight was the only enjoyment which they had tasted on this beautiful earth.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
2	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	feverish	feverish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	enjoyment	enjoyment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	tasted	taste	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
16	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | that fierce fight | the only enjoyment |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **taste** | past · perfect · passive |  | the only enjoyment |  | this beautiful earth |  |  | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme on earth=Location |

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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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