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title: As soon as Ulysses turned back, it ran up the trunk of a tree, and b… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as Ulysses turned back, it ran up the trunk of a tree, and began to pick insects out of the bark with its long, sharp bill; for it was a kind of woodpecker, you must know, and had to get its living in the same manner as other birds of that species. Who acts: Ulysses, present, you. A sentence
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 36

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As soon as Ulysses turned back, it ran up the trunk of a tree, and began to pick insects out of the bark with its long, sharp bill; for it was a kind of woodpecker, you must know, and had to get its living in the same manner as other birds of that species.

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**Who acts:** Ulysses, present, you · **What happens:** turn back, run up, begin, pick, be, know · **To what, where:** trunk, insects, bark, living, same manner

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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, present, you), 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:pg976:15:36
# text = As soon as Ulysses turned back, it ran up the trunk of a tree, and began to pick insects out of the bark with its long, sharp bill; for it was a kind of woodpecker, you must know, and had to get its living in the same manner as other birds of that species.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
27	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
28	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
30	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	bill	bill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	parataxis	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	woodpecker	woodpecker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
42	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	xcomp	_	_
49	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
51	in	in	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
53	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
55	as	as	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obl	_	_
58	of	of	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	60	det	_	_
60	species	species	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn back** | past | Ulysses |  |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **run up** | past | present | the trunk of a tree |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location trunk=Theme |
| 3 | **begin** | past | present *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **pick** | to-infinitive | present *not said here* | insects |  | the bark |  | with present's long sharp bill | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | past | present |  |  |  |  | for a kind; of woodpecker | tree rules |
| 6 | **know** | must | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **have** | past | present *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **get** | to-infinitive | present *not said here* | present's living |  | the same manner |  | as other birds of that species | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer living=Stimulus as bird=Attribute |
| 9 | **bill** |  | present |  |  |  |  |  | nom bill «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 10 | **live** |  | present |  |  |  |  |  | nom living «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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