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title: The wild beasts yelped and glared at him, and stood at a distance, w… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The wild beasts yelped and glared at him, and stood at a distance, while he ascended the palace steps. Who acts: wild beasts, King. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 13

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The wild beasts yelped and glared at him, and stood at a distance, while he ascended the palace steps.

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**Who acts:** wild beasts, King · **What happens:** yelp, glare, stand, ascend · **To what, where:** palace steps

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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 (wild beasts, King), 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:pg976:18:13
# text = The wild beasts yelped and glared at him, and stood at a distance, while he ascended the palace steps.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	yelped	yelp	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	glared	glare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	ascended	ascend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **yelp** | past | the wild beasts |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **glare** | past | the wild beasts *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at King | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Location |
| 3 | **stand** | past | the wild beasts *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at a distance | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at distance=Location |
| 4 | **ascend** | past | King | the palace steps |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme step=Trajectory |

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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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