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title: "But just listen to the pleasant voices of those maidens, and that b… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "But just listen to the pleasant voices of those maidens, and that buzz of the loom, as the shuttle passes to and fro," said another comrade. " Who acts: you, shuttle, comrade, loom. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 50

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"But just listen to the pleasant voices of those maidens, and that buzz of the loom, as the shuttle passes to and fro," said another comrade. "

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**Who acts:** you, shuttle, comrade, loom · **What happens:** listen, pass, fro, say, buzz · **To what, where:** buzz · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, shuttle, comrade, 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:pg976:16:50
# text = "But just listen to the pleasant voices of those maidens, and that buzz of the loom, as the shuttle passes to and fro," said another comrade. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	listen	listen	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	buzz	buzz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	loom	loom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	shuttle	shuttle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	passes	pass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	fro	fro	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
29	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
30	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	31	det	_	_
31	comrade	comrade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **listen** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | that buzz of the loom |  |  |  | to the pleasant voices of that maidens | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** *in a quote* | present | the shuttle |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fro** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | another comrade |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **buzz** *in a quote* |  | the loom |  |  |  |  |  | nom buzz «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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