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title: And once, while crossing a solitary sheep pasture, she saw a persona… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And once, while crossing a solitary sheep pasture, she saw a personage named Pan, seated at the foot of a tall rock, and making music on a shepherd's flute. Who acts: child. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 94

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And once, while crossing a solitary sheep pasture, she saw a personage named Pan, seated at the foot of a tall rock, and making music on a shepherd's flute.

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**Who acts:** child · **What happens:** cross, see, name, seat, make · **To what, where:** solitary sheep pasture, personage, foot, music, flute

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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 (child), 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:pg976:21:94
# text = And once, while crossing a solitary sheep pasture, she saw a personage named Pan, seated at the foot of a tall rock, and making music on a shepherd's flute.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	crossing	cross	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	solitary	solitary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	sheep	sheep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	pasture	pasture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	personage	personage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	Pan	Pan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	seated	seat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
29	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	's	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	flute	flute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cross** | gerund | child *not said here* | a solitary sheep pasture |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pasture=Patient |
| 2 | **see** | past | child | a personage |  |  |  | once *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer personage=Stimulus |
| 3 | **name** | participle |  | a personage *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **seat** | participle |  | a personage *not said here* |  | the foot of a tall rock |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location |
| 5 | **make** | gerund | child *not said here* | music |  | a shepherd's flute |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset music=Product |

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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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