--- title: Uttering these last words, she waved her wand; and stamping her foot… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Uttering these last words, she waved her wand; and stamping her foot imperiously, each of the guests was struck aghast at beholding, instead of his comrades in human shape, one and twenty hogs sitting on the same number of golden thrones. Who acts: behavior, one hogs. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/17/41/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Tanglewood Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/) / [Circe's Palace., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/17/) / 41 # Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 41 Uttering these last words, she waved her wand; and stamping her foot imperiously, each of the guests was struck aghast at beholding, instead of his comrades in human shape, one and twenty hogs sitting on the same number of golden thrones. **Who acts:** behavior, one hogs · **What happens:** utter, wave, stamp, strike, behold, sit · **To what, where:** last words, wand, foot, each, comrades, human shape 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 (behavior, one hogs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg976:17:41 # text = Uttering these last words, she waved her wand; and stamping her foot imperiously, each of the guests was struck aghast at beholding, instead of his comrades in human shape, one and twenty hogs sitting on the same number of golden thrones. 1 Uttering utter VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 2 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 4 det _ _ 3 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 6 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 waved wave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 wand wand NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 12 stamping stamp VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 13 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 imperiously imperiously ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 17 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 guests guest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 struck strike VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 23 aghast aghast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 xcomp _ _ 24 at at SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 25 beholding behold VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 30 case _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 27 fixed _ _ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 comrades comrade NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 human human ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 38 nummod _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 conj _ _ 38 hogs hog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 conj _ _ 39 sitting sit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 38 acl _ _ 40 on on ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 thrones throne NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **utter** *speech: other* | gerund | behavior *not said here* | this last words | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | | 2 | **wave** | past | behavior | behavior's wand | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wand=Patient | | 3 | **stamp** | gerund | | behavior's foot | | | | imperiously *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Destination | | 4 | **strike** | past · passive | | each | | | | aghast *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 5 | **behold** | gerund | | serpent's comrades and one hogs | | human shape | | | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer comrade=Stimulus | | 6 | **sit** | gerund | one hogs *not said here* | | | the same number of golden thrones | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on number=Location | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/17/40/) - next →: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/17/42/) - ↑ back to [Circe's Palace., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/17/)