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description: By and by, the song came to an end; and then, all at once, there were several feminine voices, talking airily and cheerfully, with now and then a merry burst of laughter, such as you may always hear when three or four young women sit at work together. Who acts: you, three young women. A sentence of 
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 46

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By and by, the song came to an end; and then, all at once, there were several feminine voices, talking airily and cheerfully, with now and then a merry burst of laughter, such as you may always hear when three or four young women sit at work together.

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**Who acts:** you, three young women · **What happens:** come, be, talk, hear, sit, burst · **To what, where:** end, several feminine voices, work, laughter

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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 (you, three young women), 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:pg976:16:46
# text = By and by, the song came to an end; and then, all at once, there were several feminine voices, talking airily and cheerfully, with now and then a merry burst of laughter, such as you may always hear when three or four young women sit at work together.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	all	all	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	20	expl	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	feminine	feminine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
26	airily	airily	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	cheerfully	cheerfully	ADV	RB	_	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	36	advmod	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	burst	burst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	laughter	laughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
40	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ	45	mark	_	_
41	as	as	ADP	IN	_	40	fixed	_	_
42	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
43	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
44	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	45	advmod	_	_
45	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	conj	_	_
46	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	52	advmod	_	_
47	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	51	nummod	_	_
48	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	47	conj	_	_
50	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	nsubj	_	_
52	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	advcl	_	_
53	at	at	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	_
55	together	together	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  |  |  |  | to a end | by the song | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | several feminine voices |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **talk** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | airily *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hear** | may | you |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **sit** | present | three young women |  |  | work |  | together *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at work=Location |
| 6 | **burst** |  |  | laughter |  |  |  |  | nom burst «act 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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