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title: Smarting with the pain, he galloped around the open space in so ridi… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Smarting with the pain, he galloped around the open space in so ridiculous a way that Theseus laughed at it, long afterwards, though not precisely at the moment. Who acts: Theseus. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 45

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Smarting with the pain, he galloped around the open space in so ridiculous a way that Theseus laughed at it, long afterwards, though not precisely at the moment.

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**Who acts:** Theseus · **What happens:** smart, gallop, laugh · **To what, where:** open space, way

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Theseus), 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:pg976:6:45
# text = Smarting with the pain, he galloped around the open space in so ridiculous a way that Theseus laughed at it, long afterwards, though not precisely at the moment.
1	Smarting	smart	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	galloped	gallop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	around	around	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	ridiculous	ridiculous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
24	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	precisely	precisely	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smart** | gerund | Theseus *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the pain | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **gallop** | past | Theseus |  |  | the open space | moment | in ridiculous | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around space=Trajectory |
| 3 | **laugh** | past | Theseus | a way *not said here* |  | way |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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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