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title: The sun was shining slantwise over the field, and showed all the moi… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The sun was shining slantwise over the field, and showed all the moist, dark soil just like any other newly-planted piece of ground. Who acts: sun. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 32

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The sun was shining slantwise over the field, and showed all the moist, dark soil just like any other newly-planted piece of ground.

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**Who acts:** sun · **What happens:** shine, show, plant · **To what, where:** field, moist dark soil

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun), 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:pg976:13:32
# text = The sun was shining slantwise over the field, and showed all the moist, dark soil just like any other newly-planted piece of ground.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	slantwise	slantwise	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	17	det:predet	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	moist	moist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
18	just	just	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
20	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
21	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
22	newly	newly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	planted	plant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
25	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shine** | past · progressive | the sun |  |  | the field |  | slantwise *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over field=Location |
| 2 | **show** | past | the sun *not said here* | all moist dark soil |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent soil=Recipient piece=Topic |
| 3 | **plant** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | newly *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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