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title: As often as Ulysses moved forward, however, the bird showed the grea… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As often as Ulysses moved forward, however, the bird showed the greatest alarm, and did its best to drive him back, with the anxious flutter of its purple wings. Who acts: Ulysses, bird, purple wings. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 1, with its dependen
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 32

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As often as Ulysses moved forward, however, the bird showed the greatest alarm, and did its best to drive him back, with the anxious flutter of its purple wings.

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**Who acts:** Ulysses, bird, purple wings · **What happens:** move forward, show, do, drive back, flutter · **To what, where:** greatest alarm, bird

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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 (Ulysses, bird, purple wings), 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:pg976:15:32
# text = As often as Ulysses moved forward, however, the bird showed the greatest alarm, and did its best to drive him back, with the anxious flutter of its purple wings.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
6	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	however	however	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
15	alarm	alarm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	csubj	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	back	back	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	anxious	anxious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	flutter	flutter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move forward** | past | Ulysses |  |  |  |  | forward, often *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **show** | past | the bird | the greatest alarm |  |  |  | however *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent alarm=Recipient |
| 3 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **drive back** | to-infinitive |  | bird |  |  |  | with the anxious flutter of alarm's purple wings | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 5 | **flutter** |  | alarm's purple wings |  |  |  |  |  | nom flutter «act intransitive»: of=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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