--- title: And, on the other hand, what living thing, unless his sinews were ma… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And, on the other hand, what living thing, unless his sinews were made of brass, would not be weary of marching eighteen hundred miles in the twenty-four hours, as Talus does, without ever sitting down to rest? Who acts: other hand, living thing, Talus. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/5/39/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Tanglewood Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/) / [The Minotaur., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/5/) / 39 # Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 39 And, on the other hand, what living thing, unless his sinews were made of brass, would not be weary of marching eighteen hundred miles in the twenty-four hours, as Talus does, without ever sitting down to rest? **Who acts:** other hand, living thing, Talus · **What happens:** live, thing, make, not be, march, do · **To what, where:** sinews, hundred miles This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other hand, living thing, Talus), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg976:5:39 # text = And, on the other hand, what living thing, unless his sinews were made of brass, would not be weary of marching eighteen hundred miles in the twenty-four hours, as Talus does, without ever sitting down to rest? 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 10 nsubj _ _ 9 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 amod _ _ 10 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 unless unless SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 sinews sinew NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl:relcl _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 brass brass NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 21 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 22 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 23 cop _ _ 23 weary weary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 parataxis _ _ 24 of of SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 25 marching march VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ _ 26 eighteen eighteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 compound _ _ 27 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 miles mile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 31 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 34 nummod _ _ 34 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 as as SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 37 Talus Talus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 without without SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 41 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 42 advmod _ _ 42 sitting sit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 38 advcl _ _ 43 down down ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 44 to to PART TO _ 45 mark _ _ 45 rest rest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | gerund | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **thing** | | the other hand | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **make** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive | living thing *not said here* | Crete's sinews | | | | of brass | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 4 | **not** **is** | would | | | | | | weary *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **march** | gerund | | hundred miles | | | hour | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mile=Trajectory | | 6 | **do** | present | Talus | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **sit down** | gerund | Talus *not said here* | | | | ever | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **rest** | to-infinitive | Talus *not said here* | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/5/38/) - next →: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/5/40/) - ↑ back to [The Minotaur., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/5/)