---
title: Then, recollecting themselves, they scrambled to their feet, and loo… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, recollecting themselves, they scrambled to their feet, and looked more than commonly foolish. Who acts: people. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/18/101/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/18/) / 101

# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 101

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Then, recollecting themselves, they scrambled to their feet, and looked more than commonly foolish.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** recollect, scramble, look · **To what, where:** people, feet

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg976:18:101
# text = Then, recollecting themselves, they scrambled to their feet, and looked more than commonly foolish.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	recollecting	recollect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
4	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	scrambled	scramble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
15	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	commonly	commonly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recollect** | gerund | people *not said here* | people |  |  | then |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme |
| 2 | **scramble** | past | people |  |  | people's feet |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to foot=Destination |
| 3 | **look** | past | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/18/100/)
- next →: [sentence 102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/18/102/)
- ↑ back to [Circe's Palace., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/18/)