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title: Her peacock, which had now fluttered down from her shoulder, strutte… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Her peacock, which had now fluttered down from her shoulder, strutted behind her in a prodigious pomp, and spread out its magnificent tail on purpose for Jason to admire it. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 90

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Her peacock, which had now fluttered down from her shoulder, strutted behind her in a prodigious pomp, and spread out its magnificent tail on purpose for Jason to admire it.

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**What happens:** flutter down, strut, spread out, admire · **To what, where:** peacock, shoulder, prodigious pomp, magnificent tail, purpose, tail

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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:pg976:25:90
# text = Her peacock, which had now fluttered down from her shoulder, strutted behind her in a prodigious pomp, and spread out its magnificent tail on purpose for Jason to admire it.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	peacock	peacock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:outer	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
7	fluttered	flutter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	down	down	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	strutted	strut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
14	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	prodigious	prodigious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	pomp	pomp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	spread	spread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Jason	Jason	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	admire	admire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **flutter down** | past · perfect · passive |  | blessing's peacock |  | blessing's shoulder | now |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **strut** | participle |  |  |  | a prodigious pomp |  | behind blessing | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind she=Trajectory |
| 3 | **spread out** | infinitive |  | pomp's magnificent tail |  | purpose |  | for Jason | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tail=Theme on purpose=Destination |
| 4 | **admire** | to-infinitive |  | tail |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

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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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