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title: The thick branches of these trees stretched across the front of the… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The thick branches of these trees stretched across the front of the edifice, and more than half concealed it, although, from the portion which he saw, Ulysses judged it to be spacious and exceedingly beautiful, and probably the residence of some great nobleman or prince. Who acts: thick branches, Ul
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 17

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The thick branches of these trees stretched across the front of the edifice, and more than half concealed it, although, from the portion which he saw, Ulysses judged it to be spacious and exceedingly beautiful, and probably the residence of some great nobleman or prince.

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**Who acts:** thick branches, Ulysses · **What happens:** stretch, conceal, see, judge, be · **To what, where:** trees, front, half, portion

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thick branches, Ulysses), 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:pg976:15:17
# text = The thick branches of these trees stretched across the front of the edifice, and more than half concealed it, although, from the portion which he saw, Ulysses judged it to be spacious and exceedingly beautiful, and probably the residence of some great nobleman or prince.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	across	across	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	edifice	edifice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	18	advmod	_	_
17	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	19	nsubj	_	_
19	concealed	conceal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obj	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	judged	judge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	cop	_	_
36	spacious	spacious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	xcomp	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
42	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	residence	residence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	parataxis	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	48	det	_	_
47	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
49	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stretch** | participle |  | this trees *not said here* |  | the front of the edifice |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across front=Location |
| 2 | **conceal** | past | the thick branches of this trees | half |  | the portion |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Patient from portion=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **see** | past | Ulysses | the portion |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
| 4 | **judge** | past | Ulysses | half |  |  |  |  | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent it=Value |
| 5 | **is** | to-infinitive | Ulysses *not said here* |  |  |  |  | spacious *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | Ulysses *not said here* |  |  |  |  | exceedingly *property* | tree rules |

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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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