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title: Then you might have seen the guests nodding, winking with one eye, a… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then you might have seen the guests nodding, winking with one eye, and leaning from one throne to another, to communicate their satisfaction in hoarse whispers. Who acts: you, guests. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 3, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 1

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Then you might have seen the guests nodding, winking with one eye, and leaning from one throne to another, to communicate their satisfaction in hoarse whispers.

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**Who acts:** you, guests · **What happens:** see, nod, wink, lean, communicate, satisfy · **To what, where:** guests, one throne, satisfaction, hoarse whispers

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, guests), 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:pg976:17:1
# text = Then you might have seen the guests nodding, winking with one eye, and leaning from one throne to another, to communicate their satisfaction in hoarse whispers.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
5	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	nodding	nod	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	winking	wink	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	conj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	leaning	lean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	communicate	communicate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	satisfaction	satisfaction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	hoarse	hoarse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	whispers	whisper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | might · perfect | you | the guests |  |  | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer guest=Stimulus |
| 2 | **nod** | gerund | the guests *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wink** | gerund | the guests *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with one eye | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **lean** | gerund | the guests *not said here* |  |  | one throne |  | to another | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **communicate** | to-infinitive | the guests *not said here* | guests's satisfaction |  | hoarse whispers |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent satisfaction=Topic |
| 6 | **satisfy** |  | guests *= guest* |  |  |  |  |  | nom satisfaction «feeling 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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