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title: Just imagine the grave old gentleman clattering and stamping into th… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Just imagine the grave old gentleman clattering and stamping into the schoolroom on his four hoofs, perhaps treading on some little fellow's toes, flourishing his switch tail instead of a rod, and, now and then, trotting out of doors to eat a mouthful of grass! Who acts: you, old gentleman. A senten
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 11

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Just imagine the grave old gentleman clattering and stamping into the schoolroom on his four hoofs, perhaps treading on some little fellow's toes, flourishing his switch tail instead of a rod, and, now and then, trotting out of doors to eat a mouthful of grass!

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**Who acts:** you, old gentleman · **What happens:** imagine, clatter, stamp, tread, flourish, trot out · **To what, where:** old gentleman, schoolroom, toes, switch tail, doors, mouthful

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., 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 (you, old gentleman), 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:pg976:25:11
# text = Just imagine the grave old gentleman clattering and stamping into the schoolroom on his four hoofs, perhaps treading on some little fellow's toes, flourishing his switch tail instead of a rod, and, now and then, trotting out of doors to eat a mouthful of grass!
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	clattering	clatter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	stamping	stamp	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	conj	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	schoolroom	schoolroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	hoofs	hoof	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	treading	tread	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	conj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
22	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	flourishing	flourish	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	conj	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	switch	switch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	34	case	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	fixed	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	rod	rod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	42	advmod	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	trotting	trot	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
43	out	out	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	advcl	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	mouthful	mouthful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **imagine** | imperative | you *not said here* | the old gentleman |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot gentleman=Theme |
| 2 | **clatter** | gerund | the old gentleman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stamp** | gerund | the old gentleman *not said here* |  |  | the schoolroom |  | on gentleman's four hoofs | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent into schoolroom=Destination |
| 4 | **tread** | gerund | the old gentleman *not said here* |  |  | some little fellow's toes |  | perhaps *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on toe=Trajectory |
| 5 | **flourish** | gerund | the old gentleman *not said here* | gentleman's switch tail |  |  |  | instead a rod | tree rules |
| 6 | **trot out** | gerund | you *not said here* | doors |  |  | now |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Agent |
| 7 | **eat** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a mouthful of grass |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouthful=Patient |

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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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