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title: The murmur and hum of the multitude, in their surprise at the specta… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 12

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The murmur and hum of the multitude, in their surprise at the spectacle of Jason with his one bare foot, grew so loud that it disturbed the ceremonies; and the king, holding the great knife with which he was just going to cut the bull's throat, turned angrily about, and fixed his eyes on Jason.

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**Who acts:** murmur, notice, Jason, multitude · **What happens:** grow, disturb, hold, go, cut, turn · **To what, where:** king, ceremonies, great knife, throat, eyes, Jason

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (murmur, notice, Jason, multitude), 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:pg976:26:12
# text = The murmur and hum of the multitude, in their surprise at the spectacle of Jason with his one bare foot, grew so loud that it disturbed the ceremonies; and the king, holding the great knife with which he was just going to cut the bull's throat, turned angrily about, and fixed his eyes on Jason.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	murmur	murmur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	hum	hum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	multitude	multitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	spectacle	spectacle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Jason	Jason	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
20	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
23	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	disturbed	disturb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	ceremonies	ceremony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
40	with	with	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	45	obl	_	_
42	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
43	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
44	just	just	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	conj	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	xcomp	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	's	's	PART	POS	_	49	case	_	_
51	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
53	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
54	angrily	angrily	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
55	about	about	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
58	fixed	fix	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
59	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	60	nmod:poss	_	_
60	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	obj	_	_
61	on	on	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
62	Jason	Jason	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	58	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | the murmur and hum of the multitude and murmur's surprise at the spectacle of Jason with Jason's one bare foot | the king |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **disturb** | past | notice | the ceremonies |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus ceremony=Experiencer |
| 3 | **hold** | gerund | the murmur and hum of the multitude and murmur's surprise at the spectacle of Jason with Jason's one bare foot *not said here* | the great knife |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | past · progressive | Jason |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **cut** | to-infinitive | Jason *not said here* | the bull's throat |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset throat=Product |
| 6 | **turn** | past | the murmur and hum of the multitude and murmur's surprise at the spectacle of Jason with Jason's one bare foot *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about, angrily *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **fix** | past | the murmur and hum of the multitude and murmur's surprise at the spectacle of Jason with Jason's one bare foot *not said here* | Jason's eyes |  | Jason |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 8 | **hum** |  | the multitude |  |  |  |  |  | nom hum «state intransitive»: of=agent |
| 9 | **surprise** |  | murmur |  |  | the spectacle of Jason with Jason's one bare foot |  |  | nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=agent at=place |

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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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