--- title: They had rambled to some distance from the palace where their parent… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: They had rambled to some distance from the palace where their parents dwelt, and were now in a verdant meadow, on one side of which lay the sea, all sparkling and dimpling in the sunshine, and murmuring gently against the beach. Who acts: Cadmus, parents, one side, all. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tal --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/10/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Tanglewood Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/) / [The Dragon's Teeth., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/10/) / 2 # Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 2 They had rambled to some distance from the palace where their parents dwelt, and were now in a verdant meadow, on one side of which lay the sea, all sparkling and dimpling in the sunshine, and murmuring gently against the beach. **Who acts:** Cadmus, parents, one side, all · **What happens:** ramble, dwell, be, lie, sparkle, dimple · **To what, where:** one side, verdant meadow, sea, sunshine, beach This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cadmus, parents, one side, all), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg976:10:2 # text = They had rambled to some distance from the palace where their parents dwelt, and were now in a verdant meadow, on one side of which lay the sea, all sparkling and dimpling in the sunshine, and murmuring gently against the beach. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 rambled ramble VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 6 det _ _ 6 distance distance NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 13 advmod _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 dwelt dwell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 16 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 17 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 21 advmod _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 verdant verdant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 meadow meadow NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 33 nsubj _ _ 33 sparkling sparkle VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 advcl _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 dimpling dimple VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 conj _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 sunshine sunshine NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 murmuring murmur VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 42 gently gently ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 43 against against ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ramble** | past · perfect | Cadmus | | | one side | | to some distance from the palace | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to distance=Destination | | 2 | **dwell** | past | Cadmus's parents | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | past | | | | a verdant meadow | now | | tree rules | | 4 | **lie** | past | one side | the sea | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sea=Theme | | 5 | **sparkle** | gerund | all | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **dimple** | gerund | all *not said here* | | | the sunshine | | | tree rules | | 7 | **murmur** *speech: other* | gerund | Cadmus *not said here* | | | the beach | | gently *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against beach=Location | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/10/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/10/3/) - ↑ back to [The Dragon's Teeth., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/10/)