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title: But by and by he heard a tremendous grunting and squealing, and then… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But by and by he heard a tremendous grunting and squealing, and then a sudden scampering, like that of small, hard hoofs over a marble floor, while the voices of the mistress and her four handmaidens were screaming all together, in tones of anger and derision. Who acts: clatter, voices. A sentence o
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 71

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But by and by he heard a tremendous grunting and squealing, and then a sudden scampering, like that of small, hard hoofs over a marble floor, while the voices of the mistress and her four handmaidens were screaming all together, in tones of anger and derision.

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**Who acts:** clatter, voices · **What happens:** hear, scream, intonate · **To what, where:** tremendous grunting, tones, anger

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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 (clatter, voices), 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:pg976:16:71
# text = But by and by he heard a tremendous grunting and squealing, and then a sudden scampering, like that of small, hard hoofs over a marble floor, while the voices of the mistress and her four handmaidens were screaming all together, in tones of anger and derision.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	2	conj	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	tremendous	tremendous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	grunting	grunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	squealing	squealing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	scampering	scampering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	appos	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	hoofs	hoof	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
26	over	over	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
31	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nsubj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
39	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	40	nummod	_	_
40	handmaidens	handmaiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	_
41	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	screaming	scream	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
43	all	all	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	together	together	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	tones	tone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	derision	derision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **hear** | past | clatter | a tremendous grunting and squealing |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer grunting=Stimulus |
| 2 | **scream** *speech: express* | past · progressive | the voices of the mistress and voice's four handmaidens |  |  | tones of anger and derision |  | together *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tone=Location |
| 3 | **intonate** |  |  | anger and derision |  |  |  |  | nom tone «communication 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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