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title: The archers, meanwhile, were stationed within bow shot, with orders… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The archers, meanwhile, were stationed within bow shot, with orders to let fly at Hercules the instant that he stirred. Who acts: Hercules. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 48

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The archers, meanwhile, were stationed within bow shot, with orders to let fly at Hercules the instant that he stirred.

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**Who acts:** Hercules · **What happens:** station, let, fly, stir · **To what, where:** archers, instant, Hercules

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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 (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:pg976:9:48
# text = The archers, meanwhile, were stationed within bow shot, with orders to let fly at Hercules the instant that he stirred.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	archers	archer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	stationed	station	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	within	within	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	shot	shot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
16	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	stirred	stir	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **station** | past · passive |  | the archers |  |  |  | within bow shot; with orders | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **let** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fly** | infinitive |  | the instant |  | Hercules |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at hercules=Location |
| 4 | **stir** | past | Hercules |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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