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title: At length they came within full sight of the palace, which proved to… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At length they came within full sight of the palace, which proved to be very large and lofty, with a great number of airy pinnacles upon its roof. Who acts: Cyclops, palace. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 29

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At length they came within full sight of the palace, which proved to be very large and lofty, with a great number of airy pinnacles upon its roof.

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**Who acts:** Cyclops, palace · **What happens:** come, prove, be, sight · **To what, where:** length, palace

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cyclops, palace), 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:pg976:16:29
# text = At length they came within full sight of the palace, which proved to be very large and lofty, with a great number of airy pinnacles upon its roof.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	within	within	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	proved	prove	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	ccomp	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	airy	airy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	pinnacles	pinnacle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
28	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Cyclops |  |  | length |  | within full sight of the palace | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at length=Location |
| 2 | **prove** | past | the palace |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | the palace *not said here* |  |  |  |  | large *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | the palace *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **sight** |  |  | the palace |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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