--- title: The king likewise heard the noise of the shuttle in the loom and the… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The king likewise heard the noise of the shuttle in the loom and the sweet melody of the beautiful woman's song, and then the pleasant voices of herself and the four maidens talking together, with peals of merry laughter intermixed. Who acts: king, four maidens, shuttle, beautiful woman. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, four maidens, shuttle, beautiful woman), 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:pg976:18:16 # text = The king likewise heard the noise of the shuttle in the loom and the sweet melody of the beautiful woman's song, and then the pleasant voices of herself and the four maidens talking together, with peals of merry laughter intermixed. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 likewise likewise ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 noise noise NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 shuttle shuttle NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 loom loom NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 melody melody NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 21 's 's PART POS _ 20 case _ _ 22 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 28 advmod _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 pleasant pleasant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 voices voice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 28 nmod _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 34 nummod _ _ 34 maidens maiden NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 conj _ _ 35 talking talk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 34 acl _ _ 36 together together ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 with with ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 peals peal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 merry merry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 laughter laughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ _ 43 intermixed intermix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 42 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | past | the king | the noise of the shuttle | | the loom and the sweet melody of the beautiful woman's song | | the pleasant voices of woman and the four maidens *obl*; likewise *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus | | 2 | **talk** | gerund | the four maidens *not said here* | | | | | with peals of merry laughter; together *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with peal=Co-Agent | | 3 | **intermix** | participle | | merry laughter *not said here* | | | | | vn mix-22.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **noise** | | the shuttle | | | | | | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent | | 5 | **sing** | | the beautiful woman | | | | | | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | | 6 | **peal** | | merry laughter | | | | | | nom peal «event intransitive»: of=agent | 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 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/18/15/) - next →: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/18/17/) - ↑ back to [Circe's Palace., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/18/)