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title: But no sooner was the Giant down, than up he bounced again, with ten… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But no sooner was the Giant down, than up he bounced again, with tenfold might, and such a furious visage as was horrible to behold. Who acts: deal. 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 71

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But no sooner was the Giant down, than up he bounced again, with tenfold might, and such a furious visage as was horrible to behold.

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**Who acts:** deal · **What happens:** be, bounce

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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 (deal), 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:pg976:8:71
# text = But no sooner was the Giant down, than up he bounced again, with tenfold might, and such a furious visage as was horrible to behold.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	down	down	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	bounced	bounce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
13	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	tenfold	tenfold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	23	det:predet	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	furious	furious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	visage	visage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	horrible	horrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	parataxis	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	26	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | giant, soon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bounce** | past | deal |  |  |  | again |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | horrible *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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