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title: Proserpina's eyes being drawn to it by its brisk motion, she saw tha… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Proserpina's eyes being drawn to it by its brisk motion, she saw that this tail was neither more nor less than a live dragon, with fiery eyes, and fangs that had a very poisonous aspect. Who acts: brisk motion, Proserpina, tail, fangs. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pom
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 127

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Proserpina's eyes being drawn to it by its brisk motion, she saw that this tail was neither more nor less than a live dragon, with fiery eyes, and fangs that had a very poisonous aspect.

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**Who acts:** brisk motion, Proserpina, tail, fangs, dog · **What happens:** draw, see, be, have, motion · **To what, where:** eyes, dog, poisonous aspect

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brisk motion, Proserpina, tail, fangs), 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:pg976:20:127
# text = Proserpina's eyes being drawn to it by its brisk motion, she saw that this tail was neither more nor less than a live dragon, with fiery eyes, and fangs that had a very poisonous aspect.
1	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	brisk	brisk	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	motion	motion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	20	cc:preconj	_	_
20	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	obj	_	_
21	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	22	cc	_	_
22	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	conj	_	_
23	than	than	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	live	live	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	fangs	fang	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
34	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
35	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
37	very	very	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	aspect	aspect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | gerund · passive | dog's brisk motion | Proserpina's eyes | dog |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to it=Destination |
| 2 | **see** | past | Proserpina |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | past | this tail |  |  |  |  | than a live dragon; more *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | this tail *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | past | fangs | a poisonous aspect |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aspect=Patient |
| 6 | **motion** |  | dog |  |  |  |  |  | nom motion «communication intransitive»: poss=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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