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title: The whole people of Athens, too, who had run out of doors to see thi… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The whole people of Athens, too, who had run out of doors to see this wonderful spectacle, set up a shout of joy at the prospect of getting rid of her. Who acts: whole people, wonderful spectacle, prospect. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 2, with its depe
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 67

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The whole people of Athens, too, who had run out of doors to see this wonderful spectacle, set up a shout of joy at the prospect of getting rid of her.

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**Who acts:** whole people, wonderful spectacle, prospect · **What happens:** run, see, set up, get, shout · **To what, where:** doors, wonderful spectacle, shout, prospect, joy

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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 (whole people, wonderful spectacle, prospect), 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:pg976:4:67
# text = The whole people of Athens, too, who had run out of doors to see this wonderful spectacle, set up a shout of joy at the prospect of getting rid of her.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Athens	Athens	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	run	run	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	acl:relcl	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
18	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	spectacle	spectacle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	shout	shout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	prospect	prospect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
30	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
31	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	acl	_	_
32	rid	rid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past · perfect | the whole people of Athens |  |  | doors |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out door=Trajectory |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | the whole people of Athens *not said here* | this wonderful spectacle |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spectacle=Stimulus |
| 3 | **set up** | participle | this wonderful spectacle *not said here* | a shout of joy |  | the prospect |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent shout=Theme at prospect=Destination |
| 4 | **get** | gerund | the prospect *not said here* |  |  |  |  | rid *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **shout** |  |  | joy |  |  |  |  | nom shout «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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