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title: Some persons affirm that he grew ten times stronger at every touch;… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Some persons affirm that he grew ten times stronger at every touch; others say that it was only twice as strong. Who acts: persons, Antaeus, others, earth. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 43

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Some persons affirm that he grew ten times stronger at every touch; others say that it was only twice as strong.

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**Who acts:** persons, Antaeus, others, earth · **What happens:** affirm, grow, say, be · **To what, where:** touch · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (persons, Antaeus, others, earth), 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:pg976:8:43
# text = Some persons affirm that he grew ten times stronger at every touch; others say that it was only twice as strong.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	affirm	affirm	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	xcomp	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
19	only	only	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	22	advmod	_	_
21	as	as	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **affirm** | present | some persons |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **grow** | past | Antaeus |  |  | every touch |  | strong *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at touch=Location |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | others |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | earth |  |  |  |  | strong, twice *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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