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title: Every little while they caught new glimpses of the marble palace, wh… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Every little while they caught new glimpses of the marble palace, which looked more and more beautiful the nearer they approached it. Who acts: comrades, new glimpses. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 8

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Every little while they caught new glimpses of the marble palace, which looked more and more beautiful the nearer they approached it.

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**Who acts:** comrades, new glimpses · **What happens:** catch, look, approach, glimpse · **To what, where:** little, palace, marble palace

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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 (comrades, new glimpses), 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:pg976:16:8
# text = Every little while they caught new glimpses of the marble palace, which looked more and more beautiful the nearer they approached it.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	_
3	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	glimpses	glimpse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	marble	marble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
15	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
18	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	advcl	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	approached	approach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | past | comrades *= comrade* | every little |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **look** | past | new glimpses of the marble palace |  |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **approach** | past | comrades *= comrade* | palace |  |  |  |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **glimpse** |  |  | the marble palace |  |  |  |  | nom glimpse «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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