--- title: And again and again the rosy-checked and curly-headed boy would tug… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And again and again the rosy-checked and curly-headed boy would tug and strain at the huge mass of stone, striving, child as he was, to do what a giant could hardly have done without taking both of his great hands to the task. Who acts: curly headed boy, boy. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nath --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/3/29/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Tanglewood Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/) / [The Minotaur., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/3/) / 29 # Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 29 And again and again the rosy-checked and curly-headed boy would tug and strain at the huge mass of stone, striving, child as he was, to do what a giant could hardly have done without taking both of his great hands to the task. **Who acts:** curly headed boy, boy · **What happens:** check, tug, strain, strive, be, do · **To what, where:** huge mass, child, giant, both, task This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (curly headed boy, boy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg976:3:29 # text = And again and again the rosy-checked and curly-headed boy would tug and strain at the huge mass of stone, striving, child as he was, to do what a giant could hardly have done without taking both of his great hands to the task. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 2 cc _ _ 2 again again ADV RB _ 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 again again ADV RB _ 2 conj _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 rosy rosy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 checked check VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 10 curly curly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 headed headed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 tug tug VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 strain strain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 18 at at ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 mass mass NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 striving strive VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 as as SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 34 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 40 obj _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 giant giant NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj:pass _ _ 37 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 38 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 39 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 40 aux _ _ 40 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 advcl _ _ 41 without without SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 42 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 40 advcl _ _ 43 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 42 obj _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 45 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod:poss _ _ 46 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 nmod _ _ 48 to to ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 task task NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **check** | participle | | | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **tug** | would | curly headed boy | | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **strain** | infinitive | curly headed boy *not said here* | | | the huge mass of stone | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **strive** | gerund | curly headed boy *not said here* | child | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | past | boy | | | | | do *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **do** | could · perfect · passive | | a giant | | | | hardly *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **take** | gerund | | both | | the task | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent both=Theme to task=Destination | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/3/28/) - next →: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/3/30/) - ↑ back to [The Minotaur., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/3/)