---
title: I made Eustace Bright sit down on a snow bank, which had heaped itse… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I made Eustace Bright sit down on a snow bank, which had heaped itself over the mossy seat, and gazing through the arched windows opposite, he acknowledged that the scene at once grew picturesque. Who acts: I, Eustace. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Wayside. Introductor
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/2/14/)

<!-- 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/) / [The Wayside. Introductory.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/2/) / 14

# Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 14

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
I made Eustace Bright sit down on a snow bank, which had heaped itself over the mossy seat, and gazing through the arched windows opposite, he acknowledged that the scene at once grew picturesque.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** I, Eustace · **What happens:** make, sit down, heap, gaze, arch, acknowledge · **To what, where:** snow bank, mossy seat, scene

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Wayside. Introductory.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Eustace), 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:pg976:2:14
# text = I made Eustace Bright sit down on a snow bank, which had heaped itself over the mossy seat, and gazing through the arched windows opposite, he acknowledged that the scene at once grew picturesque.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Eustace	Eustace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Bright	Bright	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	3	flat	_	_
5	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	down	down	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	heaped	heap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obj	_	_
16	over	over	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	mossy	mossy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	gazing	gaze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
23	through	through	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	arched	arch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
26	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
27	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	acknowledged	acknowledge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
35	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	36	advmod	_	_
36	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
37	picturesque	picturesque	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sit down** | present | Eustace |  |  | a snow bank |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location |
| 3 | **heap** | past · perfect · passive |  | a snow bank |  | the mossy seat |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **gaze** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | through the arched windows; opposite *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through window=Theme |
| 5 | **arch** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **acknowledge** | past | Eustace | the scene |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scene=Topic |
| 7 | **grow** | past | Eustace *not said here* |  |  |  |  | once, picturesque *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

<!-- .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 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/2/13/)
- next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/2/15/)
- ↑ back to [The Wayside. Introductory.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/2/)