--- title: Often, likewise, she encountered fauns, who looked like sunburnt cou… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Often, likewise, she encountered fauns, who looked like sunburnt country people, except that they had hairy ears, and little horns upon their foreheads, and the hinder legs of goats, on which they gamboled merrily about the woods and fields. Who acts: child, fauns, little horns. A sentence of «Tangl --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/21/89/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Tanglewood Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/) / [The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/21/) / 89 # Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 89 Often, likewise, she encountered fauns, who looked like sunburnt country people, except that they had hairy ears, and little horns upon their foreheads, and the hinder legs of goats, on which they gamboled merrily about the woods and fields. **Who acts:** child, fauns, little horns · **What happens:** encounter, look, have, gambol · **To what, where:** fauns, hairy ears 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 (child, fauns, little horns), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg976:21:89 # text = Often, likewise, she encountered fauns, who looked like sunburnt country people, except that they had hairy ears, and little horns upon their foreheads, and the hinder legs of goats, on which they gamboled merrily about the woods and fields. 1 Often often ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 likewise likewise ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 encountered encounter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 fauns faun NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 11 like like ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 sunburnt sunburnt ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 except except ADP IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 that that SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 20 hairy hairy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 24 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 horns horn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ _ 26 upon upon ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 foreheads forehead NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 hinder hind ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 33 amod _ _ 33 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 goats goat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 on on ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 40 obl _ _ 39 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 gamboled gambol VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 41 merrily merrily ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 42 about about ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 woods wood NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obl _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 fields field NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **encounter** | past | child | fauns | | | | likewise, often *property* | vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer faun=Stimulus | | 2 | **look** | past | fauns | | | | | like sunburnt country people | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **have** | past | fauns *= faun* | hairy ears | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient | | 4 | **gambol** | past | little horns upon horns's foreheads and the hinder legs of goats | | | | | about the woods and fields; merrily *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on which=Trajectory | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/21/88/) - next →: [sentence 90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/21/90/) - ↑ back to [The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/21/)