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title: Much to her astonishment, this hole kept spreading wider and wider,… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Much to her astonishment, this hole kept spreading wider and wider, and growing deeper and deeper, until it really seemed to have no bottom; and all the while, there came a rumbling noise out of its depths, louder and louder, and nearer and nearer, and sounding like the tramp of horses' hoofs and th
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 48

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Much to her astonishment, this hole kept spreading wider and wider, and growing deeper and deeper, until it really seemed to have no bottom; and all the while, there came a rumbling noise out of its depths, louder and louder, and nearer and nearer, and sounding like the tramp of horses' hoofs and the rattling of wheels.

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**Who acts:** hole, it, while, notion, wheels · **What happens:** keep, spread, grow, seem, have, come · **To what, where:** bottom, rumbling noise, depths

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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 (hole, it, while, notion), 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:pg976:20:48
# text = Much to her astonishment, this hole kept spreading wider and wider, and growing deeper and deeper, until it really seemed to have no bottom; and all the while, there came a rumbling noise out of its depths, louder and louder, and nearer and nearer, and sounding like the tramp of horses' hoofs and the rattling of wheels.
1	Much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	spreading	spread	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
10	wider	wide	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	xcomp	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	wider	wide	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	conj	_	_
16	deeper	deep	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	xcomp	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	deeper	deep	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	really	really	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	27	det	_	_
27	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
30	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	32	det:predet	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	35	expl	_	_
35	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	rumbling	rumbling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
39	out	out	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	depths	depth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
44	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	42	conj	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	44	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	35	parataxis	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	49	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
54	sounding	sound	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	53	acl	_	_
55	like	like	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	tramp	tramp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	_
58	of	of	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
59	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	61	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	'	's	PART	POS	_	59	case	_	_
61	hoofs	hoof	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	nmod	_	_
62	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
63	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
64	rattling	rattling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	conj	_	_
65	of	of	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
66	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	64	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | this hole |  |  |  |  | much notion's astonishment | tree rules |
| 2 | **spread** | gerund | this hole *not said here* |  |  |  |  | wide *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | gerund | this hole *not said here* |  |  |  |  | deep *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **seem** | past | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 5 | **have** | to-infinitive |  | no bottom |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottom=Patient |
| 6 | **come** | past | all while | a rumbling noise |  | hole's depths; there |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location noise=Theme |
| 7 | **sound** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | like the tramp of horses's hoofs and the rattling of wheels | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 8 | **astonish** |  | notion |  |  |  |  |  | nom astonishment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
| 9 | **rattle** |  | wheels |  |  |  |  |  | nom rattling «event intransitive»: of=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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