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title: A woman's voice was singing melodiously in another room of the palac… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: A woman's voice was singing melodiously in another room of the palace, and with her voice was mingled the noise of a loom, at which she was probably seated, weaving a rich texture of cloth, and intertwining the high and low sweetness of her voice into a rich tissue of harmony. Who acts: voice, loom.
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 45

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A woman's voice was singing melodiously in another room of the palace, and with her voice was mingled the noise of a loom, at which she was probably seated, weaving a rich texture of cloth, and intertwining the high and low sweetness of her voice into a rich tissue of harmony.

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**Who acts:** voice, loom · **What happens:** sing, mingle, seat, weave, intertwine, noise · **To what, where:** room, noise, voice, rich texture, high sweetness, rich tissue

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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 (voice, loom), 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:pg976:16:45
# text = A woman's voice was singing melodiously in another room of the palace, and with her voice was mingled the noise of a loom, at which she was probably seated, weaving a rich texture of cloth, and intertwining the high and low sweetness of her voice into a rich tissue of harmony.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	melodiously	melodiously	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	mingled	mingle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	loom	loom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	obl	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
31	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	seated	seat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	weaving	weave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	texture	texture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	intertwining	intertwine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
44	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	conj	_	_
47	sweetness	sweetness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	_
51	into	into	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
52	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
53	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	tissue	tissue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	harmony	harmony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past · progressive | a woman's voice |  |  | another room of the palace |  | melodiously *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in room=Location |
| 2 | **mingle** | past · passive |  | the noise of a loom |  |  |  | with voice's voice | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: noise=Patient with voice=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **seat** | past · passive |  | voice |  |  |  | probably *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value |
| 4 | **weave** | gerund | a woman's voice *not said here* | a rich texture of cloth |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent texture=Product |
| 5 | **intertwine** | gerund | a woman's voice *not said here* | the high sweetness of voice's voice |  | a rich tissue of harmony |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweetness=Patient |
| 6 | **noise** |  | a loom |  |  |  |  |  | nom noise «event 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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