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title: A blue smoke went curling up from the chimney, and was almost the pl… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: A blue smoke went curling up from the chimney, and was almost the pleasantest part of the spectacle to Ulysses. Who acts: blue smoke. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 18

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A blue smoke went curling up from the chimney, and was almost the pleasantest part of the spectacle to Ulysses.

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**Who acts:** blue smoke · **What happens:** go, curl up, be · **To what, where:** chimney, pleasantest part

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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 (blue smoke), 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:pg976:15:18
# text = A blue smoke went curling up from the chimney, and was almost the pleasantest part of the spectacle to Ulysses.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	curling	curl	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
6	up	up	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	chimney	chimney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
13	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	pleasantest	pleasant	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	_
16	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	spectacle	spectacle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | a blue smoke |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **curl up** | gerund | a blue smoke *not said here* |  |  | the chimney |  |  | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from chimney=Destination |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | the pleasantest part |  |  |  | of the spectacle to Ulysses; almost *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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