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title: As the figure moved like clockwork, however, and could neither haste… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As the figure moved like clockwork, however, and could neither hasten his enormous strides nor retard them, he arrived at the port when they were just beyond the reach of his club. Who acts: Talus, strides. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 4, with its depe
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 80

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As the figure moved like clockwork, however, and could neither hasten his enormous strides nor retard them, he arrived at the port when they were just beyond the reach of his club.

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**Who acts:** Talus, strides · **What happens:** move, hasten, retard, arrive, be, stride · **To what, where:** figure, enormous strides, strides, port

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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 (Talus, strides), 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:pg976:6:80
# text = As the figure moved like clockwork, however, and could neither hasten his enormous strides nor retard them, he arrived at the port when they were just beyond the reach of his club.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
4	moved	move	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	acl	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	clockwork	clockwork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	however	however	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	hasten	hasten	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	enormous	enormous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	strides	stride	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	18	cc	_	_
18	retard	retard	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	32	mark	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
29	just	just	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
30	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	reach	reach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	advcl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	club	club	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | participle |  | the figure *not said here* |  |  |  | like clockwork | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hasten** | could |  | Talus's enormous strides |  |  |  | as the figure; however, neither *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent stride=Patient |
| 3 | **retard** | infinitive |  | strides *= stride* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **arrive** | past | Talus |  |  | the port |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | strides *= stride* |  |  |  |  | beyond the reach; of Talus's club | tree rules |
| 6 | **stride** |  | Talus |  |  |  |  |  | nom stride «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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