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title: After this feat, the dragon seemed sensible that some other living c… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: After this feat, the dragon seemed sensible that some other living creature was within reach, on which he felt inclined to finish his meal. Who acts: dragon, some, other living creature, antelope. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 5, with its dependenc
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 89

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After this feat, the dragon seemed sensible that some other living creature was within reach, on which he felt inclined to finish his meal.

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**Who acts:** dragon, some, other living creature, antelope · **What happens:** seem, creature, be, feel, finish · **To what, where:** meal

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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 (dragon, some, other living creature, antelope), 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:pg976:29:89
# text = After this feat, the dragon seemed sensible that some other living creature was within reach, on which he felt inclined to finish his meal.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	feat	feat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	sensible	sensible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	nsubj	_	_
11	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	within	within	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	reach	reach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obl	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
22	inclined	inclined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	finish	finish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | the dragon |  |  |  | after this feat |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **creature** |  | some |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | other living creature |  |  |  |  | within sensible reach | tree rules |
| 4 | **feel** | past | antelope |  |  |  |  | inclined *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **finish** | to-infinitive | antelope *not said here* | antelope's meal |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality meal=Eventuality |

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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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