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title: Then the beautiful woman took her stand in the middle of the saloon,… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the beautiful woman took her stand in the middle of the saloon, and stretching out a slender rod (it had been all the while in her hand, although they never noticed it till this moment), she turned it from one guest to another, until each had felt it pointed at himself. Who acts: beautiful woma
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 35

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Then the beautiful woman took her stand in the middle of the saloon, and stretching out a slender rod (it had been all the while in her hand, although they never noticed it till this moment), she turned it from one guest to another, until each had felt it pointed at himself.

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**Who acts:** beautiful woman, rod, gormandizers, woman · **What happens:** take, stretch out, be, not notice, turn, feel · **To what, where:** stand, middle, slender rod, while, hand, rod

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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 (beautiful woman, rod, gormandizers, woman), 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:pg976:17:35
# text = Then the beautiful woman took her stand in the middle of the saloon, and stretching out a slender rod (it had been all the while in her hand, although they never noticed it till this moment), she turned it from one guest to another, until each had felt it pointed at himself.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	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	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	stand	stand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	saloon	saloon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	stretching	stretch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	slender	slender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	rod	rod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	cop	_	_
25	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	27	det:predet	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	noticed	notice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	till	till	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	39	det	_	_
39	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	_
45	from	from	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	47	nummod	_	_
47	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
51	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	54	mark	_	_
52	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	54	nsubj:pass	_	_
53	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
54	felt	feel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	43	conj	_	_
55	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
56	pointed	point	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	ccomp	_	_
57	at	at	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the beautiful woman | woman's stand |  | the middle of the saloon | then |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent stand=Value in middle=Location |
| 2 | **stretch out** | gerund | the beautiful woman *not said here* | a slender rod |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent rod=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | past · perfect | rod | all while |  | woman's hand |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **notice** | past | gormandizers *= gormandizer* | rod |  |  | moment |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 5 | **turn** | past | woman | rod |  |  |  | from one guest to another | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme from guest=Trajectory |
| 6 | **feel** | past · perfect · passive |  | each |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **point** | past | rod |  |  |  |  | at Ulysses | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=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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