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title: The country round about was conveniently laid out in fields, the lar… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The country round about was conveniently laid out in fields, the largest of which was nearly of the same extent as one of Sweet Fern's flower beds. Who acts: country. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 11

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The country round about was conveniently laid out in fields, the largest of which was nearly of the same extent as one of Sweet Fern's flower beds.

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**Who acts:** country · **What happens:** lay out, be · **To what, where:** country, fields

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (country), 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:pg976:7:11
# text = The country round about was conveniently laid out in fields, the largest of which was nearly of the same extent as one of Sweet Fern's flower beds.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
3	round	round	ADP	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	conveniently	conveniently	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	appos	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nmod	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
17	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	extent	extent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
25	Sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Fern	Fern	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	beds	bed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay out** | past · passive |  | the country *not said here* |  | fields |  | about, conveniently *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in field=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | past | the country |  |  |  |  | of the same extent; as one of Sweet Fern's flower beds; nearly *property* | tree rules |

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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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