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title: And when his deep, regular breathing gave them notice that he was as… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And when his deep, regular breathing gave them notice that he was asleep, they assembled together in an immense crowd, spreading over a space of about twenty-seven feet square. Who acts: deep regular breathing, breathing, heads, Hercules. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The 
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 2

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And when his deep, regular breathing gave them notice that he was asleep, they assembled together in an immense crowd, spreading over a space of about twenty-seven feet square.

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**Who acts:** deep regular breathing, breathing, heads, Hercules · **What happens:** give, notice, be, assemble, spread, breathe · **To what, where:** heads, immense crowd, space

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deep regular breathing, breathing, heads, Hercules), 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:pg976:9:2
# text = And when his deep, regular breathing gave them notice that he was asleep, they assembled together in an immense crowd, spreading over a space of about twenty-seven feet square.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
4	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	regular	regular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	breathing	breathing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
10	notice	notice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	assembled	assemble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	together	together	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	immense	immense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	spreading	spread	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
25	over	over	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
29	about	about	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	flat	_	_
33	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	compound	_	_
34	square	square	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | Hercules's deep regular breathing |  | heads *= head* |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **notice** | infinitive | Hercules's deep regular breathing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | past | breathing |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **assemble** | past | heads *= head* |  |  | a immense crowd |  | together *property* | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **spread** | gerund | heads *= head* *not said here* |  |  | a space of twenty feet square |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over space=Location |
| 6 | **breathe** |  | Hercules |  |  |  |  |  | nom breathing «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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