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title: At last, while the baby was crowing, and clapping its fat little han… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At last, while the baby was crowing, and clapping its fat little hands, and laughing in the nurse's face (just as you may have seen your little brother or sister do before going into its warm bath), Ceres suddenly laid him, all naked as he was, in the hollow among the red-hot embers. Who acts: baby,
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 15

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At last, while the baby was crowing, and clapping its fat little hands, and laughing in the nurse's face (just as you may have seen your little brother or sister do before going into its warm bath), Ceres suddenly laid him, all naked as he was, in the hollow among the red-hot embers.

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**Who acts:** baby, you, Ceres, backlog · **What happens:** crow, clap, laugh, see, do, go · **To what, where:** fat little hands, little brother, last, warm bath, backlog, hollow

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (baby, you, Ceres, backlog), 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:pg976:23:15
# text = At last, while the baby was crowing, and clapping its fat little hands, and laughing in the nurse's face (just as you may have seen your little brother or sister do before going into its warm bath), Ceres suddenly laid him, all naked as he was, in the hollow among the red-hot embers.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	crowing	crow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	clapping	clap	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
13	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	just	just	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux	_	_
30	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
31	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
36	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
37	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
38	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	advcl	_	_
39	into	into	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
41	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
46	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	conj	_	_
48	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	all	all	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
51	naked	naked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	xcomp	_	_
52	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
53	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
54	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
56	in	in	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	hollow	hollow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	advcl	_	_
59	among	among	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
61	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	63	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	61	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	64	amod	_	_
64	embers	ember	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	36	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crow** | past · progressive | the baby |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **clap** | gerund | the baby *not said here* | baby's fat little hands |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme |
| 3 | **laugh** | gerund | the baby *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in the nurse's face | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in face=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | may · perfect | you | your little brother or sister |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brother=Stimulus |
| 5 | **do** | present |  |  |  | last |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **go** | gerund |  |  |  | baby's warm bath |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into bath=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **lay** | past | Ceres | backlog |  |  |  | naked, suddenly *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Result |
| 8 | **is** | past | backlog |  |  | the hollow |  | among the hot embers | tree rules |

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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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