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title: Pulling away the shrubbery which clustered over the hole, he bent fo… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Pulling away the shrubbery which clustered over the hole, he bent forward, and spoke in a distinct but reverential tone, as if addressing some unseen personage inside of the mountain. Who acts: Delphi, shrubbery. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, w
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 22

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Pulling away the shrubbery which clustered over the hole, he bent forward, and spoke in a distinct but reverential tone, as if addressing some unseen personage inside of the mountain.

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**Who acts:** Delphi, shrubbery · **What happens:** pull away, cluster, bend, speak, address · **To what, where:** shrubbery, hole, distinct tone, unseen personage, mountain · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., 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 (Delphi, shrubbery), 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:pg976:12:22
# text = Pulling away the shrubbery which clustered over the hole, he bent forward, and spoke in a distinct but reverential tone, as if addressing some unseen personage inside of the mountain.
1	Pulling	pull	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
2	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	shrubbery	shrubbery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	clustered	cluster	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	bent	bend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	distinct	distinct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	reverential	reverential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
22	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	addressing	address	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
27	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
28	unseen	unseen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	personage	personage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	fixed	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull away** | gerund | Delphi *not said here* | the shrubbery |  |  |  | away *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cluster** | past | the shrubbery |  |  | the hole |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bend** | past | Delphi |  |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Delphi *not said here* |  |  | a distinct tone |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **address** | gerund | Delphi *not said here* | some unseen personage |  | the mountain |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent personage=Destination |

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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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