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title: When his strength and breath were quite gone, Hercules gave his huge… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When his strength and breath were quite gone, Hercules gave his huge body a toss, and flung it about a mile off, where it fell heavily, and lay with no more motion than a sand hill. Who acts: strength, Hercules, you. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 2, with
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 102

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When his strength and breath were quite gone, Hercules gave his huge body a toss, and flung it about a mile off, where it fell heavily, and lay with no more motion than a sand hill.

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**Who acts:** strength, Hercules, you · **What happens:** be, give, fling off, fall, lay · **To what, where:** huge body, toss

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strength, Hercules, you), 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:pg976:8:102
# text = When his strength and breath were quite gone, Hercules gave his huge body a toss, and flung it about a mile off, where it fell heavily, and lay with no more motion than a sand hill.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	8	mark	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	toss	toss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	about	about	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	off	off	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	28	advmod	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
29	heavily	heavily	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	lay	lay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	36	det	_	_
35	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	36	amod	_	_
36	motion	motion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
37	than	than	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | way's strength and breath |  |  |  |  | gone *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | past | Hercules | way's huge body |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent body=Recipient toss=Theme |
| 3 | **fling off** | past | Hercules *not said here* | toss |  |  |  | about a mile | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme about mile=Destination |
| 4 | **fall** | past | strength |  |  |  |  | heavily *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **lay** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with no more motion than a sand hill | vn create-26.4 «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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