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title: The up-gushing water had now again taken the shape of a man in a lon… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The up-gushing water had now again taken the shape of a man in a long, white, fleecy robe, who appeared to be making gestures of welcome. Who acts: long fleecy robe, welcome. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 15

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The up-gushing water had now again taken the shape of a man in a long, white, fleecy robe, who appeared to be making gestures of welcome.

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**Who acts:** long fleecy robe, welcome · **What happens:** gush, take, appear, make, gesture · **To what, where:** gushing water, long fleecy robe, gestures

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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 (long fleecy robe, welcome), 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:pg976:18:15
# text = The up-gushing water had now again taken the shape of a man in a long, white, fleecy robe, who appeared to be making gestures of welcome.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	up	up	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	gushing	gush	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
8	again	again	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
17	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
21	fleecy	fleecy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux	_	_
28	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
29	gestures	gesture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	welcome	welcome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gush** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | past · perfect · passive |  | the gushing water |  | a long fleecy robe | now; again |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme shape=Destination |
| 3 | **appear** | past | a long fleecy robe |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive · progressive | a long fleecy robe *not said here* | gestures of welcome |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gesture=Product |
| 5 | **gesture** |  | welcome |  |  |  |  |  | nom gesture «act intransitive»: of=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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