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title: But he was almost choked by a great many tender feelings that gushed… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But he was almost choked by a great many tender feelings that gushed out of his heart and swelled into his throat, all struggling to find utterance together. Who acts: great many tender feelings, all. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 2, with its dependency
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 21

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But he was almost choked by a great many tender feelings that gushed out of his heart and swelled into his throat, all struggling to find utterance together.

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**Who acts:** great many tender feelings, all · **What happens:** choke, gush, swell, struggle, find · **To what, where:** Theseus, heart, throat, utterance

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great many tender feelings, all), 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:pg976:4:21
# text = But he was almost choked by a great many tender feelings that gushed out of his heart and swelled into his throat, all struggling to find utterance together.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	choked	choke	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	tender	tender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	gushed	gush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	swelled	swell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	nsubj	_	_
25	struggling	struggle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	utterance	utterance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	together	together	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choke** | past · passive | a great many tender feelings | Theseus |  |  |  | almost *property* | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Destination |
| 2 | **gush** | past | a great many tender feelings |  |  | Theseus's heart |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out heart=Location |
| 3 | **swell** | past | a great many tender feelings *not said here* |  |  | Theseus's throat |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **struggle** | gerund | all |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **find** | to-infinitive | all *not said here* | utterance |  |  |  | together *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent utterance=Topic |

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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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