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title: But no sooner did Hercules begin to be scorched, than up he started,… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But no sooner did Hercules begin to be scorched, than up he started, with his hair in a red blaze. 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 51

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But no sooner did Hercules begin to be scorched, than up he started, with his hair in a red blaze.

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**Who acts:** Hercules · **What happens:** begin, scorch, start

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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:pg976:9:51
# text = But no sooner did Hercules begin to be scorched, than up he started, with his hair in a red blaze.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	begin	begin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	scorched	scorch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	blaze	blaze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past · do-support | Hercules |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **scorch** | to-infinitive · passive | Hercules *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V» |
| 3 | **start** | past | Hercules |  |  |  |  | with Hercules's hair in a red blaze | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with hair=Subeventuality |

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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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