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title: In their sty, moreover, they behaved more piggishly than the pigs th… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 52

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In their sty, moreover, they behaved more piggishly than the pigs that had been born so; for they bit and snorted at one another, put their feet in the trough, and gobbled up their victuals in a ridiculous hurry; and, when there was nothing more to be had, they made a great pile of themselves among some unclean straw, and fell fast asleep.

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**Who acts:** creatures, nothing · **What happens:** behave, bear, bit, snort, put, gobble up · **To what, where:** sty, pigs, feet, trough, victuals, ridiculous hurry

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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 (creatures, nothing), 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:pg976:17:52
# text = In their sty, moreover, they behaved more piggishly than the pigs that had been born so; for they bit and snorted at one another, put their feet in the trough, and gobbled up their victuals in a ridiculous hurry; and, when there was nothing more to be had, they made a great pile of themselves among some unclean straw, and fell fast asleep.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	sty	sty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	moreover	moreover	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	behaved	behave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
10	piggishly	piggishly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
20	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	bit	bit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	snorted	snort	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	obl	_	_
27	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
29	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	trough	trough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	gobbled	gobble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
38	up	up	ADP	RP	_	37	compound:prt	_	_
39	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	victuals	victual	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	ridiculous	ridiculous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	hurry	hurry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	58	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
48	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	50	advmod	_	_
49	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	50	expl	_	_
50	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	advcl	_	_
51	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	50	nsubj	_	_
52	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	51	amod	_	_
53	to	to	PART	TO	_	55	mark	_	_
54	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	aux:pass	_	_
55	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	52	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
57	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
58	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
59	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
60	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	amod	_	_
61	pile	pile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obj	_	_
62	of	of	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
63	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	61	nmod	_	_
64	among	among	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
65	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	67	det	_	_
66	unclean	unclean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	67	amod	_	_
67	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	70	punct	_	_
69	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	70	cc	_	_
70	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	conj	_	_
71	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	70	advmod	_	_
72	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	70	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **behave** | past | creatures *= creature* |  |  | creatures's sty |  | than the pigs; moreover *property* | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bear** | past · perfect · passive |  | the pigs |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **bit** | present | creatures *= creature* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **snort** | past | creatures *= creature* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at one | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **put** | infinitive | creatures *= creature* *not said here* | creatures's feet |  | the trough |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Theme in trough=Destination |
| 6 | **gobble up** | past | creatures *= creature* *not said here* | creatures's victuals |  | a ridiculous hurry |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent victual=Theme |
| 7 | **be** | past | nothing |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **have** | to-infinitive · passive | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP» |
| 9 | **make** | past | creatures *= creature* | a great pile of creatures |  |  |  | among some unclean straw | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pile=Product |
| 10 | **fall** | past | creatures *= creature* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | asleep, fast *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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