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title: On the outside of the town there was an immense crowd of people, not… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: On the outside of the town there was an immense crowd of people, not only men and women, but children too, all in their best clothes, and evidently enjoying a holiday. Who acts: all. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 1, with its dependency tree and the
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 93

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On the outside of the town there was an immense crowd of people, not only men and women, but children too, all in their best clothes, and evidently enjoying a holiday.

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**Who acts:** all · **What happens:** enjoy · **To what, where:** holiday, outside

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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 (all), 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:pg976:25:93
# text = On the outside of the town there was an immense crowd of people, not only men and women, but children too, all in their best clothes, and evidently enjoying a holiday.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	outside	outside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	immense	immense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
16	only	only	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
23	too	too	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	nsubj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	29	amod	_	_
29	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	evidently	evidently	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	enjoying	enjoy	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	0	root	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	holiday	holiday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enjoy** | gerund | all | a holiday |  | the outside of the town but children |  | evidently *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer holiday=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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