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title: With the tornado of his breath, he could have stripped the roofs fro… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: With the tornado of his breath, he could have stripped the roofs from a hundred dwellings and sent thousands of the inhabitants whirling through the air. Who acts: Antaeus, inhabitants. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 28

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With the tornado of his breath, he could have stripped the roofs from a hundred dwellings and sent thousands of the inhabitants whirling through the air.

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**Who acts:** Antaeus, inhabitants · **What happens:** strip, send, whirl · **To what, where:** roofs, hundred dwellings, thousands, air

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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 (Antaeus, inhabitants), 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:pg976:7:28
# text = With the tornado of his breath, he could have stripped the roofs from a hundred dwellings and sent thousands of the inhabitants whirling through the air.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	tornado	tornado	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux	_	_
11	stripped	strip	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	roofs	roof	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	dwellings	dwelling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
20	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	whirling	whirl	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
25	through	through	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strip** | could · perfect | Antaeus | the roofs |  | hundred dwellings |  | with the tornado of Antaeus's breath | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent roof=Theme from dwelling=Source |
| 2 | **send** | past | Antaeus *not said here* | thousands of the inhabitants |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Theme |
| 3 | **whirl** | gerund | the inhabitants *not said here* |  |  | the air |  |  | vn coil-9.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Destination |

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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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