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title: All these came pelting down, like a shower of many-colored hailstone… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: All these came pelting down, like a shower of many-colored hailstones, upon the heads of grown people and children, who forthwith gathered them up, and carried them back to the palace. Who acts: these, heads. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 2, with its de
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 70

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All these came pelting down, like a shower of many-colored hailstones, upon the heads of grown people and children, who forthwith gathered them up, and carried them back to the palace.

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**Who acts:** these, heads · **What happens:** come, pelt down, grow, gather up, carry back · **To what, where:** people, palace

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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 (these, heads), 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:pg976:4:70
# text = All these came pelting down, like a shower of many-colored hailstones, upon the heads of grown people and children, who forthwith gathered them up, and carried them back to the palace.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	pelting	pelt	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	shower	shower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	colored	colored	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	hailstones	hailstone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
21	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
26	forthwith	forthwith	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
33	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	back	back	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | these |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pelt down** | gerund | these *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like a shower of many colored hailstones; down *property* | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |
| 3 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **gather up** | past | the heads of grown people and children | people |  |  |  | forthwith *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 5 | **carry back** | past | these *not said here* | people |  | the palace |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to palace=Destination |

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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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