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title: So fearless were they, that they made nothing of creeping in among t… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So fearless were they, that they made nothing of creeping in among the folds of his garments. Who acts: Pygmies. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 57

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So fearless were they, that they made nothing of creeping in among the folds of his garments.

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**Who acts:** Pygmies · **What happens:** be, make, creep in · **To what, where:** Pygmies, nothing, folds

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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 (Pygmies), 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:pg976:7:57
# text = So fearless were they, that they made nothing of creeping in among the folds of his garments.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	fearless	fearless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	8	obj	_	_
10	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	creeping	creep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
12	in	in	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	among	among	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	folds	fold	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	garments	garment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | Pygmies *= pygmy* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past | Pygmies *= pygmy* | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nothing=Product |
| 3 | **creep in** | gerund |  |  |  | the folds of Earth's garments |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among fold=Trajectory |

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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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