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title: Its stately trunk rose up a hundred feet into the air, and threw a b… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Its stately trunk rose up a hundred feet into the air, and threw a broad and dense shadow over more than an acre of ground. Who acts: stately trunk. 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 62

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Its stately trunk rose up a hundred feet into the air, and threw a broad and dense shadow over more than an acre of ground.

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**Who acts:** stately trunk · **What happens:** rise up, throw · **To what, where:** hundred feet, air, broad shadow, acre

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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 (stately trunk), 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:pg976:26:62
# text = Its stately trunk rose up a hundred feet into the air, and threw a broad and dense shadow over more than an acre of ground.
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	stately	stately	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	dense	dense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
20	over	over	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	24	advmod	_	_
22	than	than	ADP	IN	_	21	fixed	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	acre	acre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise up** | past | center's stately trunk | a hundred feet |  | the air |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into air=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **throw** | past | center's stately trunk *not said here* | a broad shadow |  | a acre of ground |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent shadow=Theme over acre=Destination |

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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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