--- title: Standing beneath it, Jason looked up among the knotted branches and… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Standing beneath it, Jason looked up among the knotted branches and green leaves, and into the mysterious heart of the old tree, and spoke aloud, as if he were addressing some person who was hidden in the depths of the foliage. Who acts: Jason. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jason), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg976:26:63 # text = Standing beneath it, Jason looked up among the knotted branches and green leaves, and into the mysterious heart of the old tree, and spoke aloud, as if he were addressing some person who was hidden in the depths of the foliage. 1 Standing stand VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 2 beneath beneath ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 5 Jason Jason PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 up up ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 among among ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 knotted knot VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 amod _ _ 11 branches branch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 into into ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 mysterious mysterious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 28 aloud aloud ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 as as SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 31 if if SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 addressing address VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 advcl _ _ 35 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 36 det _ _ 36 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 39 nsubj:pass _ _ 38 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux:pass _ _ 39 hidden hide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 acl:relcl _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 depths depth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obl _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 foliage foliage NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | gerund | Jason *not said here* | | | center | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath it=Location | | 2 | **look up** | past | Jason | | | | | among the knotted branches and green leaves | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent among branch=Theme | | 3 | **knot** | participle | | | | | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | | | | | | aloud *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **address** | past · progressive | Jason | | some person | | | | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Destination | | 6 | **hide** | past · passive | | some person | | the depths of the foliage | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in depth=Location | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/26/62/) - next →: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/26/64/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Fleece., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/26/)