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title: And when the small distant squeak of their voices reached his ear, t… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And when the small distant squeak of their voices reached his ear, the Giant would make answer, "Pretty well, brother Pygmy, I thank you," in a thunderous roar that would have shaken down the walls of their strongest temple, only that it came from so far aloft. Who acts: small distant squeak, ear, P
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 25

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And when the small distant squeak of their voices reached his ear, the Giant would make answer, "Pretty well, brother Pygmy, I thank you," in a thunderous roar that would have shaken down the walls of their strongest temple, only that it came from so far aloft.

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**Who acts:** small distant squeak, ear, Pygmies, voices · **What happens:** reach, make, thank, shake down, come, squeak · **To what, where:** thunderous roar, answer, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (small distant squeak, ear, Pygmies, voices), 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:pg976:7:25
# text = And when the small distant squeak of their voices reached his ear, the Giant would make answer, "Pretty well, brother Pygmy, I thank you," in a thunderous roar that would have shaken down the walls of their strongest temple, only that it came from so far aloft.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	10	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	squeak	squeak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
18	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
22	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Pygmy	Pygmy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	thank	thank	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	thunderous	thunderous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	roar	roar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
36	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
38	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	aux	_	_
39	shaken	shake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	acl:relcl	_	_
40	down	down	ADP	RP	_	39	compound:prt	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
45	strongest	strong	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	46	amod	_	_
46	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
48	only	only	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
49	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
50	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
51	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
52	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
53	so	so	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
54	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	55	advmod	_	_
55	aloft	aloft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | the small distant squeak of Halloo's voices |  |  | a thunderous roar |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | would | squeak's ear | answer |  |  |  | brother Pygmy *obl*; pretty *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset answer=Product |
| 3 | **thank** *speech: thank* *in a quote* | present | the Pygmies *= pygmy* |  | you |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 4 | **shake down** | would · perfect · passive |  | a thunderous roar |  |  |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme wall=Destination |
| 5 | **come** | past | ear |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **squeak** |  | Halloo's voices |  |  |  |  |  | nom squeak «event intransitive»: of=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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