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title: The people round about caught up the king's words, indistinctly as t… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The people round about caught up the king's words, indistinctly as they were uttered; and first there was a murmur amongst them, and then a loud shout. Who acts: king. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 22

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The people round about caught up the king's words, indistinctly as they were uttered; and first there was a murmur amongst them, and then a loud shout.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** catch up, utter, be, word · **To what, where:** people, murmur

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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 (king), 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:pg976:26:22
# text = The people round about caught up the king's words, indistinctly as they were uttered; and first there was a murmur amongst them, and then a loud shout.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	round	round	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	indistinctly	indistinctly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	uttered	utter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	21	advmod	_	_
20	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	21	expl	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	murmur	murmur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
24	amongst	amongst	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	shout	shout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	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 | **catch up** | participle · passive |  | the people |  |  |  | about, round *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary word=Theme |
| 2 | **utter** *speech: other* | past · passive |  | people |  |  |  | indistinctly *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | a murmur and a loud shout |  |  |  | amongst people | tree rules |
| 4 | **word** |  | the king |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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