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title: So, throwing down his club, with which he had fought so many dreadfu… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So, throwing down his club, with which he had fought so many dreadful battles, the hero stood ready to receive his antagonist with naked arms. Who acts: Hercules, hero. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 2, sentence 86

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So, throwing down his club, with which he had fought so many dreadful battles, the hero stood ready to receive his antagonist with naked arms.

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**Who acts:** Hercules, hero · **What happens:** throw down, fight, stand, receive · **To what, where:** club, many dreadful battles, antagonist

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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 (Hercules, hero), 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:pg976:8:86
# text = So, throwing down his club, with which he had fought so many dreadful battles, the hero stood ready to receive his antagonist with naked arms.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	club	club	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obl	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	fought	fight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	battles	battle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
21	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	antagonist	antagonist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	naked	naked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw down** | gerund |  | Hercules's club |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=Theme |
| 2 | **fight** | past · perfect | Hercules | many dreadful battles |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **stand** | past | the hero |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **receive** | to-infinitive | the hero *not said here* | Hercules's antagonist |  |  |  | with naked arms | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent antagonist=Theme |

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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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