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title: All this while, the good creatures had been waiting on the bank of s… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: All this while, the good creatures had been waiting on the bank of sponge, and once, every half minute or so, had popped up their four heads above water, to see if their playmate were yet coming back. Who acts: while, playmate. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 53

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All this while, the good creatures had been waiting on the bank of sponge, and once, every half minute or so, had popped up their four heads above water, to see if their playmate were yet coming back.

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**Who acts:** while, playmate · **What happens:** wait, pop up, see, come back · **To what, where:** bank, four heads, water

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (while, playmate), 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:pg976:21:53
# text = All this while, the good creatures had been waiting on the bank of sponge, and once, every half minute or so, had popped up their four heads above water, to see if their playmate were yet coming back.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:outer	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	aux	_	_
10	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	sponge	sponge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
21	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	22	compound	_	_
22	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	popped	pop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
32	above	above	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
37	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
38	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	playmate	playmate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
40	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
41	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	ccomp	_	_
43	back	back	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | past · perfect · progressive | all while |  |  | the bank of sponge | minute |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bank=Location |
| 2 | **pop up** | past · perfect | all while *not said here* | banks's four heads |  | water |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | all while *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **come back** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · progressive | waters's playmate |  |  |  | yet |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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