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title: When the two armies joined battle, the cranes would rush forward, fl… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When the two armies joined battle, the cranes would rush forward, flapping their wings and stretching out their necks, and would perhaps snatch up some of the Pygmies crosswise in their beaks. Who acts: two armies, joined battle. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies.,
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 1, sentence 74

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When the two armies joined battle, the cranes would rush forward, flapping their wings and stretching out their necks, and would perhaps snatch up some of the Pygmies crosswise in their beaks.

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**Who acts:** two armies, joined battle · **What happens:** join, battle, rush, flap, stretch out, snatch up · **To what, where:** wings, necks

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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 (two armies, joined battle), 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:pg976:7:74
# text = When the two armies joined battle, the cranes would rush forward, flapping their wings and stretching out their necks, and would perhaps snatch up some of the Pygmies crosswise in their beaks.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	armies	army	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	joined	join	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cranes	crane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	rush	rush	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	flapping	flap	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	stretching	stretch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	necks	neck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	snatch	snatch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	32	nsubj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Pygmies	Pygmy	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
32	crosswise	crosswise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	parataxis	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	beaks	beak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **join** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **battle** |  | the two armies |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **rush** | would | joined battle |  |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **flap** | gerund | joined battle *not said here* | battles's wings |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient |
| 5 | **stretch out** | gerund | joined battle *not said here* | battles's necks |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent neck=Patient |
| 6 | **snatch up** | would | joined battle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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