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title: Then it flew towards the edge of the cliff, and looked around at the… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then it flew towards the edge of the cliff, and looked around at them, as if exceedingly anxious that they should return whence they came. Who acts: weep, cliffs. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 1, sentence 88

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Then it flew towards the edge of the cliff, and looked around at them, as if exceedingly anxious that they should return whence they came.

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**Who acts:** weep, cliffs · **What happens:** fly, look around, return, come · **To what, where:** edge

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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 (weep, cliffs), 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:pg976:15:88
# text = Then it flew towards the edge of the cliff, and looked around at them, as if exceedingly anxious that they should return whence they came.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cliff	cliff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	around	around	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	anxious	anxious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	parataxis	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
25	whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | weep |  |  | the edge of the cliff | then |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards edge=Destination |
| 2 | **look around** | past | weep *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at cliffs *= cliff*; around *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme |
| 3 | **return** | should | cliffs *= cliff* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | past | cliffs *= cliff* |  |  |  |  | whence *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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