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title: But it is only a month since I grew strong enough to lift the heavy… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But it is only a month since I grew strong enough to lift the heavy stone, and take the sword and sandals from beneath it, and come to Athens to seek my father." Who acts: name, I. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 58

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But it is only a month since I grew strong enough to lift the heavy stone, and take the sword and sandals from beneath it, and come to Athens to seek my father."

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**Who acts:** name, I · **What happens:** be, grow, lift, take, come, seek · **To what, where:** month, heavy stone, sword, name, Athens, father

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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 (name, I), 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:pg976:4:58
# text = But it is only a month since I grew strong enough to lift the heavy stone, and take the sword and sandals from beneath it, and come to Athens to seek my father."
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
7	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	lift	lift	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	sandals	sandal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Athens	Athens	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
34	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	"	"	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** | present | name | a month |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | past | I |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **lift** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the heavy stone |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme |
| 4 | **take** | infinitive | I *not said here* | the sword and sandals |  | name |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent sword=Theme from it=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **come** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  | Athens |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to athens=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **seek** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | my father |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=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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