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title: By this time, the whole nation of the Pygmies had seen the new wonde… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: By this time, the whole nation of the Pygmies had seen the new wonder, and a million of them set up a shout all together; so that it really made quite an audible squeak. Who acts: nation. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 2, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 21

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By this time, the whole nation of the Pygmies had seen the new wonder, and a million of them set up a shout all together; so that it really made quite an audible squeak.

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**Who acts:** nation · **What happens:** see, set up, make · **To what, where:** whole nation, million, audible squeak

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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 (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:pg976:8:21
# text = By this time, the whole nation of the Pygmies had seen the new wonder, and a million of them set up a shout all together; so that it really made quite an audible squeak.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nmod	_	_
22	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	shout	shout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	all	all	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	together	together	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	33	mark	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	fixed	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	really	really	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
34	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
35	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	audible	audible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	squeak	squeak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past · perfect · passive |  | the whole nation of the Pygmies |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **set up** | participle · passive |  | a million of Pygmies |  |  |  | together *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme shout=Destination |
| 3 | **make** | past | nation | a audible squeak |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material |

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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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