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title: Now it was the shape of a man in a long robe, the fleecy whiteness o… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now it was the shape of a man in a long robe, the fleecy whiteness of which was made out of the fountain's spray; now it was a lion, or a tiger, or a wolf, or an ass, or, as often as anything else, a hog, wallowing in the marble basin as if it were his sty. Who acts: water. A sentence of «Tanglewood
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 42

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Now it was the shape of a man in a long robe, the fleecy whiteness of which was made out of the fountain's spray; now it was a lion, or a tiger, or a wolf, or an ass, or, as often as anything else, a hog, wallowing in the marble basin as if it were his sty.

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**Who acts:** water · **What happens:** be, make out, wallow · **To what, where:** shape, spray, lion, marble basin, sty

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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 (water), 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:pg976:16:42
# text = Now it was the shape of a man in a long robe, the fleecy whiteness of which was made out of the fountain's spray; now it was a lion, or a tiger, or a wolf, or an ass, or, as often as anything else, a hog, wallowing in the marble basin as if it were his sty.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	fleecy	fleecy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	whiteness	whiteness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obl	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	spray	spray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	ass	ass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
46	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
48	as	as	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
49	often	often	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
50	as	as	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	49	obl	_	_
52	else	else	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
54	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	hog	hog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
57	wallowing	wallow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
58	in	in	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
60	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	compound	_	_
61	basin	basin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	_
62	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	67	mark	_	_
63	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	67	mark	_	_
64	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	67	nsubj	_	_
65	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	67	cop	_	_
66	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	67	nmod:poss	_	_
67	sty	sty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | water | the shape |  |  | now | of a man in a long robe | tree rules |
| 2 | **make out** | past · passive |  | the fountain's spray |  |  |  | of the fleecy whiteness | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: spray=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is a** | past | water | a lion or a tiger or a wolf or a ass |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **wallow** | gerund |  |  |  | the marble basin |  | often *property* | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is a** | past | water | whiteness's sty |  |  |  |  | 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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