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title: At noon, at night, journeying onward, sitting down to rest, her chil… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At noon, at night, journeying onward, sitting down to rest, her childish voice is always in my ears, calling, 'Mother! mother!' Who acts: childish voice. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 40

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At noon, at night, journeying onward, sitting down to rest, her childish voice is always in my ears, calling, 'Mother! mother!'

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**Who acts:** childish voice · **What happens:** journey, sit down, rest, be, call · **To what, where:** ears, Mother · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (childish voice), 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:pg976:11:40
# text = At noon, at night, journeying onward, sitting down to rest, her childish voice is always in my ears, calling, 'Mother! mother!'
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	journeying	journey	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	appos	_	_
8	onward	onward	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	conj	_	_
11	down	down	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	childish	childish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
19	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	22	advmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	calling	call	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
29	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **journey** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | onward *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sit down** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **rest** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | Europa's childish voice |  |  | my ears |  | always *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **call** | gerund |  |  | Mother |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient |

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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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