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title: So the beautiful woman led the way; and the four maidens (one of the… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So the beautiful woman led the way; and the four maidens (one of them had sea-green hair, another a bodice of oak bark, a third sprinkled a shower of water drops from her fingers' ends, and the fourth had some other oddity, which I have forgotten), all these followed behind, and hurried the guests a
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 90

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So the beautiful woman led the way; and the four maidens (one of them had sea-green hair, another a bodice of oak bark, a third sprinkled a shower of water drops from her fingers' ends, and the fourth had some other oddity, which I have forgotten), all these followed behind, and hurried the guests along, until they entered a magnificent saloon.

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**Who acts:** beautiful woman, four maidens, third, fourth, maidens · **What happens:** lead, have, sprinkle, forget, follow, hurry · **To what, where:** way, green hair, shower, other oddity, these, guests

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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 (beautiful woman, four maidens, third, fourth), 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:pg976:16:90
# text = So the beautiful woman led the way; and the four maidens (one of them had sea-green hair, another a bodice of oak bark, a third sprinkled a shower of water drops from her fingers' ends, and the fourth had some other oddity, which I have forgotten), all these followed behind, and hurried the guests along, until they entered a magnificent saloon.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	appos	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nmod	_	_
17	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	bodice	bodice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	third	third	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	shower	shower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	_
38	from	from	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
39	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	'	's	PART	POS	_	40	case	_	_
42	ends	end	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	fourth	fourth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
47	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
48	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	50	det	_	_
49	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	oddity	oddity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
52	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	55	nsubj:pass	_	_
53	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
54	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	_
55	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	50	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	55	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
58	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	60	det:predet	_	_
59	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	60	nsubj:pass	_	_
60	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	47	conj	_	_
61	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	60	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
63	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
64	hurried	hurry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
65	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	66	det	_	_
66	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	64	obj	_	_
67	along	along	ADV	RB	_	64	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	71	punct	_	_
69	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	71	mark	_	_
70	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	71	nsubj	_	_
71	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	64	conj	_	_
72	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	74	det	_	_
73	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	74	amod	_	_
74	saloon	saloon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	71	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
75	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past | the beautiful woman | the way |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | the four maidens | green hair |  |  |  | another bodice of oak bark *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient |
| 3 | **sprinkle** | past | a third | a shower of water drops from third's fingers's ends |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shower=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | past | the fourth | some other oddity |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oddity=Patient |
| 5 | **forget** | present · perfect · passive |  | some other oddity |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **follow** | participle · passive |  | these |  |  |  | behind *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 7 | **hurry** | past |  | the guests |  |  |  | along *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guest=Agent |
| 8 | **enter** | past | maidens *= maiden* | a magnificent saloon |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme saloon=Destination |

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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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