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title: So we descended the hill to my small, old cottage, and shut ourselve… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So we descended the hill to my small, old cottage, and shut ourselves up in the south-eastern room, where the sunshine comes in, warmly and brightly, through the better half of a winter's day. Who acts: we, sunshine. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Wayside. Introductory.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 32

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So we descended the hill to my small, old cottage, and shut ourselves up in the south-eastern room, where the sunshine comes in, warmly and brightly, through the better half of a winter's day.

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**Who acts:** we, sunshine · **What happens:** descend, come in · **To what, where:** hill, eastern room, better half

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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 (we, sunshine), 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:pg976:2:32
# text = So we descended the hill to my small, old cottage, and shut ourselves up in the south-eastern room, where the sunshine comes in, warmly and brightly, through the better half of a winter's day.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	descended	descend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
8	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	shut	shut	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
15	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	nsubj	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	27	advmod	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
28	in	in	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	warmly	warmly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	brightly	brightly	ADV	RB	_	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	through	through	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	37	amod	_	_
37	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	27	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	's	's	PART	POS	_	40	case	_	_
42	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **descend** | past | we | the hill |  | the eastern room |  | to my small old cottage | tree rules |
| 2 | **come in** | present | the sunshine |  |  | the better half of a winter's day |  | warmly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through half=Initial\_Location |

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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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