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title: But the noise waxed broader and deeper, until it resembled a tornado… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But the noise waxed broader and deeper, until it resembled a tornado sweeping through the oak, and making one great utterance out of the thousand and thousand of little murmurs which each leafy tongue had caused by its rustling. Who acts: noise, tornado, rustling, tongue. A sentence of «Tanglewood T
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 69

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But the noise waxed broader and deeper, until it resembled a tornado sweeping through the oak, and making one great utterance out of the thousand and thousand of little murmurs which each leafy tongue had caused by its rustling.

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**Who acts:** noise, tornado, rustling, tongue · **What happens:** wax, resemble, sweep, make, cause, rustle · **To what, where:** tornado, oak, one great utterance, thousand, leafy tongue

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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 (noise, tornado, rustling, tongue), 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:pg976:26:69
# text = But the noise waxed broader and deeper, until it resembled a tornado sweeping through the oak, and making one great utterance out of the thousand and thousand of little murmurs which each leafy tongue had caused by its rustling.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	waxed	wax	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	broader	broad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	deeper	deep	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	resembled	resemble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	tornado	tornado	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	sweeping	sweep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	through	through	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
22	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	utterance	utterance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	conj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	murmurs	murmur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	obj	_	_
34	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	36	det	_	_
35	leafy	leafy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	caused	cause	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl:relcl	_	_
39	by	by	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	rustling	rustling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wax** | past | the noise |  |  |  |  | broad *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **resemble** | past | noise | a tornado |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sweep** | gerund | a tornado *not said here* |  |  | the oak |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through oak=Trajectory |
| 4 | **make** | gerund | the noise *not said here* | one great utterance |  | the thousand |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset utterance=Product |
| 5 | **cause** | past · perfect · passive | tongue's rustling | each leafy tongue |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Causer subject=Theme which=Eventuality |
| 6 | **rustle** |  | tongue |  |  |  |  |  | nom rustling «act 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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