--- title: In the short moment while the folding doors opened and closed again,… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: In the short moment while the folding doors opened and closed again, he caught a glimpse of a very beautiful woman rising from the loom, and coming to meet the poor weather-beaten wanderers, with a hospitable smile, and her hand stretched out in welcome. Who acts: Eurylochus, beautiful woman. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eurylochus, beautiful woman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg976:16:63 # text = In the short moment while the folding doors opened and closed again, he caught a glimpse of a very beautiful woman rising from the loom, and coming to meet the poor weather-beaten wanderers, with a hospitable smile, and her hand stretched out in welcome. 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 5 while while SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 folding folding NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 doors door NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 9 opened open VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 closed close VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ _ 12 again again ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 glimpse glimpse NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 20 very very ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 23 rising rise VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 acl _ _ 24 from from ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 loom loom NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 coming come VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 33 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 34 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 beaten beat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 amod _ _ 37 wanderers wanderer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 39 with with ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 hospitable hospitable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 smile smile NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 45 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj:pass _ _ 47 stretched stretch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 conj _ _ 48 out out ADP RP _ 47 compound:prt _ _ 49 in in ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 welcome welcome NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **open** | participle | | the folding doors *not said here* | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **close** | participle | | | | | again | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **catch** | past | Eurylochus | a glimpse of a beautiful woman | | | moment | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glimpse=Theme | | 4 | **rise** | gerund | a beautiful woman *not said here* | | | the loom | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from loom=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **come** | gerund | Eurylochus *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **meet** | to-infinitive | Eurylochus *not said here* | the poor beaten wanderers | | | | with a hospitable smile | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent wanderer=Theme with smile=Instrument | | 7 | **beat** | participle | | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **stretch out** | participle · passive | | woman's hand | | | | in welcome | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: subject=Patient in welcome=Topic | | 9 | **glimpse** | | | a beautiful woman | | | | | nom glimpse «act transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/16/62/) - next →: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/16/64/) - ↑ back to [Circe's Palace., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/16/)