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title: So the voyagers examined the web of cloth which the beautiful woman… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So the voyagers examined the web of cloth which the beautiful woman had been weaving in her loom; and, to their vast astonishment, they saw their own figures perfectly represented in different colored threads. Who acts: voyagers, cloth. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe'
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 81

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So the voyagers examined the web of cloth which the beautiful woman had been weaving in her loom; and, to their vast astonishment, they saw their own figures perfectly represented in different colored threads.

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**Who acts:** voyagers, cloth · **What happens:** examine, weave, see, represent, astonish, figure · **To what, where:** web, loom, own figures · **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 (voyagers, cloth), 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:pg976:16:81
# text = So the voyagers examined the web of cloth which the beautiful woman had been weaving in her loom; and, to their vast astonishment, they saw their own figures perfectly represented in different colored threads.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	voyagers	voyager	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	examined	examine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	web	web	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	aux	_	_
15	weaving	weave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	acl:relcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	loom	loom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	represented	represent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	ccomp	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	colored	colored	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	threads	thread	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **examine** | past | the voyagers | the web of cloth |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent web=Theme |
| 2 | **weave** | past · perfect · progressive | cloth |  |  | woman's loom |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in loom=Trajectory |
| 3 | **see** | past | voyagers *= voyager* |  |  |  |  | to voyagers's vast astonishment | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **represent** | participle · passive |  | voyagers's own figures |  |  |  | in different colored threads; perfectly *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme in thread=Attribute |
| 5 | **astonish** |  | voyagers *= voyager* |  |  |  |  |  | nom astonishment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **figure** |  | voyagers *= voyager* |  |  |  |  |  | nom figure «communication transitive»: poss=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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