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title: Accordingly, all the fighting men of the nation took their weapons,… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Accordingly, all the fighting men of the nation took their weapons, and went boldly up to Hercules, who still lay fast asleep, little dreaming of the harm which the Pygmies meant to do him. Who acts: fighting men, Pygmies. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 3
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 41

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Accordingly, all the fighting men of the nation took their weapons, and went boldly up to Hercules, who still lay fast asleep, little dreaming of the harm which the Pygmies meant to do him.

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**Who acts:** fighting men, Pygmies · **What happens:** take, go, lay, dream, mean, do · **To what, where:** weapons, Hercules, little, harm

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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 (fighting men, Pygmies), 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:pg976:9:41
# text = Accordingly, all the fighting men of the nation took their weapons, and went boldly up to Hercules, who still lay fast asleep, little dreaming of the harm which the Pygmies meant to do him.
1	Accordingly	accordingly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	fighting	fighting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	weapons	weapon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	boldly	boldly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	still	still	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
24	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
25	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	obl	_	_
28	dreaming	dream	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	obj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
35	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	_
38	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | all fighting men of the nation | men's weapons |  |  |  | accordingly *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weapon=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | all fighting men of the nation *not said here* |  |  | Hercules |  | boldly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme up hercules=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **lay** | present |  | little |  |  | still | asleep, fast *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **dream** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | of the harm | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **mean** | past | the Pygmies | the harm |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Pygmies *not said here* | Hercules |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |

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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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