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title: Halting at the entrance, they gazed through a long vista of lofty pi… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Halting at the entrance, they gazed through a long vista of lofty pillars, that were ranged from end to end of a great hall. Who acts: king. 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 88

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Halting at the entrance, they gazed through a long vista of lofty pillars, that were ranged from end to end of a great hall.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** halt, gaze, range · **To what, where:** entrance, that, end

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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 (king), 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:pg976:13:88
# text = Halting at the entrance, they gazed through a long vista of lofty pillars, that were ranged from end to end of a great hall.
1	Halting	halt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	gazed	gaze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	through	through	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	vista	vista	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	pillars	pillar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	ranged	range	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **halt** | gerund | king *not said here* |  |  | the entrance |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **gaze** | past | king |  |  |  |  | through a long vista of lofty pillars | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through vista=Theme |
| 3 | **range** | past · passive |  | that |  |  | from end; to end of a great hall |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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