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title: Seated on the grass, the child was almost hidden under an abundance… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Seated on the grass, the child was almost hidden under an abundance of buds and blossoms, whence her rosy face peeped merrily out, and, as Cadmus said, was the prettiest of all the flowers. Who acts: grass, rosy face, Cadmus. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teet
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 4

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Seated on the grass, the child was almost hidden under an abundance of buds and blossoms, whence her rosy face peeped merrily out, and, as Cadmus said, was the prettiest of all the flowers.

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**Who acts:** grass, rosy face, Cadmus · **What happens:** seat, hide, peep, say, be · **To what, where:** grass, child, abundance · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (grass, rosy face, Cadmus), 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:pg976:10:4
# text = Seated on the grass, the child was almost hidden under an abundance of buds and blossoms, whence her rosy face peeped merrily out, and, as Cadmus said, was the prettiest of all the flowers.
1	Seated	seat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
9	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
11	under	under	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	abundance	abundance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	buds	bud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	rosy	rosy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	peeped	peep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
24	merrily	merrily	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	out	out	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	Cadmus	Cadmus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	31	ccomp	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	39	det:predet	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seat** | participle |  |  |  | the grass |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location |
| 2 | **hide** | past · passive | the grass *not said here* | the child |  | a abundance of buds and blossoms |  | almost *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient under abundance=Location |
| 3 | **peep** | past | child's rosy face |  |  |  |  | out, whence *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Cadmus |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | of all flowers; pretty *property* | tree rules |

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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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