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title: It was another favorite feat with them to march along the bridge of… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It was another favorite feat with them to march along the bridge of his nose, and jump down upon his upper lip. Who acts: party. 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 61

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It was another favorite feat with them to march along the bridge of his nose, and jump down upon his upper lip.

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**Who acts:** party · **What happens:** be, march, jump down · **To what, where:** favorite feat, bridge, upper lip

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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 (party), 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:pg976:7:61
# text = It was another favorite feat with them to march along the bridge of his nose, and jump down upon his upper lip.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
4	favorite	favorite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	feat	feat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	march	march	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
10	along	along	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
19	down	down	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	lip	lip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | party | another favorite feat |  |  |  | with tricks *= trick* | tree rules |
| 2 | **march** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the bridge of Earth's nose |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along bridge=Trajectory |
| 3 | **jump down** | infinitive | party *not said here* |  |  | Earth's upper lip |  | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon lip=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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