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title: Then, getting leisurely upon her feet, and giving her head a gentle… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, getting leisurely upon her feet, and giving her head a gentle toss, she began to move along at a moderate pace, often pausing just long enough to crop a mouthful of grass. Who acts: Cadmus. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, with its dependenc
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 52

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Then, getting leisurely upon her feet, and giving her head a gentle toss, she began to move along at a moderate pace, often pausing just long enough to crop a mouthful of grass.

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**Who acts:** Cadmus · **What happens:** get, give, begin, move along, pause, crop · **To what, where:** head, mouthful

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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 (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:pg976:12:52
# text = Then, getting leisurely upon her feet, and giving her head a gentle toss, she began to move along at a moderate pace, often pausing just long enough to crop a mouthful of grass.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
4	leisurely	leisurely	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	toss	toss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	along	along	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	moderate	moderate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	pace	pace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	often	often	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	pausing	pause	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
29	just	just	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
31	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	crop	crop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	mouthful	mouthful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | gerund | Cadmus *not said here* |  |  |  | then | upon Cadmus's feet; leisurely *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **give** | gerund | Cadmus *not said here* | Cadmus's head |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent head=Recipient toss=Theme |
| 3 | **begin** | past | Cadmus |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **move along** | to-infinitive | Cadmus *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at a moderate pace; along *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at pace=Trajectory |
| 5 | **pause** | gerund | Cadmus *not said here* |  |  |  |  | long, often *property* | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **crop** | to-infinitive | Cadmus *not said here* | a mouthful of grass |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouthful=Patient |

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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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