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title: His pine tree went so deep into the ground, and stuck there so fast,… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: His pine tree went so deep into the ground, and stuck there so fast, that, before Antaeus could get it out, Hercules brought down his club across his shoulders with a mighty thwack, which made the Giant roar as if all sorts of intolerable noises had come screeching and rumbling out of his immeasurab
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 73

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His pine tree went so deep into the ground, and stuck there so fast, that, before Antaeus could get it out, Hercules brought down his club across his shoulders with a mighty thwack, which made the Giant roar as if all sorts of intolerable noises had come screeching and rumbling out of his immeasurable lungs in that one cry.

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**Who acts:** pine tree, Antaeus, Hercules, mighty thwack, sorts · **What happens:** go, stick, get out, bring down, make, come · **To what, where:** ground, that, tree, club, shoulders, Giant roar

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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 (pine tree, Antaeus, Hercules, mighty thwack), 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:pg976:8:73
# text = His pine tree went so deep into the ground, and stuck there so fast, that, before Antaeus could get it out, Hercules brought down his club across his shoulders with a mighty thwack, which made the Giant roar as if all sorts of intolerable noises had come screeching and rumbling out of his immeasurable lungs in that one cry.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	stuck	stick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	Antaeus	Antaeus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
28	down	down	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	club	club	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	across	across	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	thwack	thwack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	40	nsubj	_	_
40	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	acl:relcl	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	roar	roar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
44	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
45	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
46	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	47	det	_	_
47	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	nsubj	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	intolerable	intolerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	noises	noise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nmod	_	_
51	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	40	advcl	_	_
53	screeching	screech	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	52	xcomp	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	rumbling	rumble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	53	conj	_	_
56	out	out	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
57	of	of	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
58	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	60	nmod:poss	_	_
59	immeasurable	immeasurable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
60	lungs	lung	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	obl	_	_
61	in	in	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
62	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	64	det	_	_
63	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	64	nummod	_	_
64	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | deal's pine tree |  |  | the ground |  | deep *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into ground=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **stick** | past |  | that |  | there |  | fast *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **get out** | could | Antaeus | tree |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **bring down** | past | Hercules | deal's club |  | deal's shoulders |  | with a mighty thwack | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent club=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | past | a mighty thwack | the Giant roar |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset roar=Product |
| 6 | **come** | past · perfect | all sorts of intolerable noises |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **screech** | gerund | all sorts of intolerable noises *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **rumble** | gerund | all sorts of intolerable noises *not said here* |  |  | deal's immeasurable lungs in that one cry |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out lung=Location |
| 9 | **sort** |  |  | intolerable noises |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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