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title: A great deal oftener, however, he watched their merriment and gambol… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: A great deal oftener, however, he watched their merriment and gambols until his huge, heavy, clumsy wits were completely stirred up by them; and then would he roar out such a tremendous volume of immeasurable laughter, that the whole nation of Pygmies had to put their hands to their ears, else it wo
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 64

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A great deal oftener, however, he watched their merriment and gambols until his huge, heavy, clumsy wits were completely stirred up by them; and then would he roar out such a tremendous volume of immeasurable laughter, that the whole nation of Pygmies had to put their hands to their ears, else it would certainly have deafened them.

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**Who acts:** great deal oftener, tricks, oftener, whole nation · **What happens:** watch, gambol, stir up, roar out, have, put · **To what, where:** merriment, clumsy wits, hands, nation

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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 (great deal oftener, tricks, oftener, whole nation), 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:pg976:7:64
# text = A great deal oftener, however, he watched their merriment and gambols until his huge, heavy, clumsy wits were completely stirred up by them; and then would he roar out such a tremendous volume of immeasurable laughter, that the whole nation of Pygmies had to put their hands to their ears, else it would certainly have deafened them.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	oftener	oftener	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	however	however	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	merriment	merriment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	gambols	gambol	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	clumsy	clumsy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	wits	wit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
23	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	stirred	stir	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	parataxis	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	advmod	_	_
31	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	roar	roar	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
34	out	out	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
35	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	38	det:predet	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	tremendous	tremendous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	volume	volume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	parataxis	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	immeasurable	immeasurable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	laughter	laughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
43	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nmod	_	_
49	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
50	to	to	PART	TO	_	51	mark	_	_
51	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	xcomp	_	_
52	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	obj	_	_
54	to	to	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
56	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
58	else	else	ADV	RB	_	63	advmod	_	_
59	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	63	nsubj:pass	_	_
60	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	63	aux	_	_
61	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	63	advmod	_	_
62	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	63	aux	_	_
63	deafened	deafen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
64	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	63	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | past | a great deal oftener | tricks's merriment |  |  |  | however *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent merriment=Theme |
| 2 | **gambol** | present | a great deal oftener *not said here* |  |  |  |  | huge *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stir up** | past · passive | tricks *= trick* | clumsy wits |  |  |  | completely *property* | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient |
| 4 | **roar out** | would | oftener |  |  |  | then |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 5 | **have** | past | the whole nation of Pygmies |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **put** | to-infinitive | the whole nation of Pygmies *not said here* | tricks's hands |  |  |  | to tricks's ears | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal |
| 7 | **deafen** | would · perfect · passive |  | nation |  |  |  | certainly, else *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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