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title: From time to time, very terrible battles had been fought in which so… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: From time to time, very terrible battles had been fought in which sometimes the little men won the victory, and sometimes the cranes. Who acts: little men. 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 70

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From time to time, very terrible battles had been fought in which sometimes the little men won the victory, and sometimes the cranes.

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**Who acts:** little men · **What happens:** fight, win · **To what, where:** terrible battles, victory

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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 (little men), 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:pg976:7:70
# text = From time to time, very terrible battles had been fought in which sometimes the little men won the victory, and sometimes the cranes.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	battles	battle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	fought	fight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obl	_	_
14	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	18	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	victory	victory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	25	advmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	cranes	crane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** | past · perfect · passive |  | terrible battles |  |  | time |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **win** | past | the little men | the victory |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent victory=Eventuality |

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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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