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title: As he entered the city, he heard the inhabitants talking at the stre… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As he entered the city, he heard the inhabitants talking at the street corners, and saying that Hercules was brave, and Jason too, and Castor and Pollux likewise, but that Theseus, the son of their own king, would turn out as great a hero as the best of them. Who acts: sow, inhabitants, Hercules. A 
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 87

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As he entered the city, he heard the inhabitants talking at the street corners, and saying that Hercules was brave, and Jason too, and Castor and Pollux likewise, but that Theseus, the son of their own king, would turn out as great a hero as the best of them.

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**Who acts:** sow, inhabitants, Hercules · **What happens:** enter, hear, talk, say, be, turn out · **To what, where:** city, inhabitants, street corners · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (sow, inhabitants, Hercules), 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:pg976:3:87
# text = As he entered the city, he heard the inhabitants talking at the street corners, and saying that Hercules was brave, and Jason too, and Castor and Pollux likewise, but that Theseus, the son of their own king, would turn out as great a hero as the best of them.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	corners	corner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	Jason	Jason	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
26	too	too	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	Castor	Castor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	Pollux	Pollux	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
32	likewise	likewise	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
34	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
36	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	appos	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
42	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
45	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
47	out	out	ADP	RP	_	46	compound:prt	_	_
48	as	as	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
52	as	as	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	46	obl	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | sow | the city |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme city=Destination |
| 2 | **hear** | past | sow | the inhabitants |  |  |  | Jason *obl* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer inhabitant=Stimulus |
| 3 | **talk** | gerund | the inhabitants *not said here* |  |  | the street corners |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | sow *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | past | Hercules |  |  |  |  | brave *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **turn out** | would | sow *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a great hero; as the best of Castor | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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