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title: While Jason was gazing at her, a peacock strutted forward, and took… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: While Jason was gazing at her, a peacock strutted forward, and took his stand at the old woman's side. Who acts: Jason, peacock. 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 40

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While Jason was gazing at her, a peacock strutted forward, and took his stand at the old woman's side.

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**Who acts:** Jason, peacock · **What happens:** gaze, strut, take · **To what, where:** stand, side

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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 (Jason, peacock), 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:pg976:25:40
# text = While Jason was gazing at her, a peacock strutted forward, and took his stand at the old woman's side.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	Jason	Jason	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	gazing	gaze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	peacock	peacock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	strutted	strut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	stand	stand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gaze** | past · progressive | Jason |  |  |  |  | at schoolmaster | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme |
| 2 | **strut** | participle | a peacock |  |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | past | a peacock *not said here* | Jason's stand |  | the old woman's side |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent stand=Theme at side=Asset |

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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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