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title: Then laughing at herself for so childish a notion, she made another… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then laughing at herself for so childish a notion, she made another effort: up came the shrub, and Proserpina staggered back, holding the stem triumphantly in her hand, and gazing at the deep hole which its roots had left in the soil. Who acts: notion, Proserpina. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 47

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Then laughing at herself for so childish a notion, she made another effort: up came the shrub, and Proserpina staggered back, holding the stem triumphantly in her hand, and gazing at the deep hole which its roots had left in the soil.

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**Who acts:** notion, Proserpina · **What happens:** laugh, make, come, stagger back, hold, gaze · **To what, where:** effort, shrub, stem, hand, roots, soil

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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 (notion, Proserpina), 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:pg976:20:47
# text = Then laughing at herself for so childish a notion, she made another effort: up came the shrub, and Proserpina staggered back, holding the stem triumphantly in her hand, and gazing at the deep hole which its roots had left in the soil.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	advcl	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obl	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	childish	childish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	notion	notion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	effort	effort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	shrub	shrub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	staggered	stagger	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
24	back	back	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	stem	stem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	triumphantly	triumphantly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	gazing	gaze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
36	at	at	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
40	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	44	obj	_	_
41	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nsubj:pass	_	_
43	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	acl:relcl	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | gerund | notion *not said here* |  |  |  | then | at Mother | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | past | notion | another effort |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effort=Product |
| 3 | **come** | past | notion *not said here* | the shrub |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shrub=Theme |
| 4 | **stagger back** | past | Proserpina |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **hold** | gerund | Proserpina *not said here* | the stem |  | Mother's hand |  | triumphantly *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent stem=Theme in hand=Location |
| 6 | **gaze** | gerund | notion *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the deep hole | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at hole=Theme |
| 7 | **leave** | past · perfect · passive |  | hole's roots |  | the soil |  |  | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme which=Attribute |

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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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