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title: Besides, he could hear them whispering to one another. — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Besides, he could hear them whispering to one another. Who acts: person, eyes. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 2

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Besides, he could hear them whispering to one another.

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**Who acts:** person, eyes · **What happens:** hear, whisper · **To what, where:** eyes, one

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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 (person, eyes), 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:pg976:26:2
# text = Besides, he could hear them whispering to one another.
1	Besides	besides	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	whispering	whisper	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
10	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **hear** | could | person | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | gerund | eyes *= eye* *not said here* |  | one |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to one=Recipient |

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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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