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title: By and by, an uprooted tree, with shattered branches, came drifting… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: By and by, an uprooted tree, with shattered branches, came drifting along the current, and got entangled among the rocks. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 26

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By and by, an uprooted tree, with shattered branches, came drifting along the current, and got entangled among the rocks.

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**What happens:** uproot, come, drift, entangle · **To what, where:** current

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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: 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:pg976:25:26
# text = By and by, an uprooted tree, with shattered branches, came drifting along the current, and got entangled among the rocks.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	uprooted	uproot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	shattered	shattered	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
13	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	drifting	drift	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	xcomp	_	_
15	along	along	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	current	current	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	entangled	entangle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
22	among	among	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **uproot** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | past |  |  |  |  |  | by a uprooted tree and shattered branches | tree rules |
| 3 | **drift** | gerund |  |  |  | the current |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along current=Trajectory |
| 4 | **entangle** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | among the rocks | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle» |

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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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