--- title: And now, though it still had the tone of a mighty wind roaring among… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And now, though it still had the tone of a mighty wind roaring among the branches, it was also like a deep bass voice, speaking as distinctly as a tree could be expected to speak, the following words: Who acts: tongue, mighty wind, tree. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The G --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/26/70/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Tanglewood Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/) / [The Golden Fleece., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/26/) / 70 # Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 2, sentence 70 And now, though it still had the tone of a mighty wind roaring among the branches, it was also like a deep bass voice, speaking as distinctly as a tree could be expected to speak, the following words: **Who acts:** tongue, mighty wind, tree · **What happens:** have, roar, be, speak, expect, follow · **To what, where:** tone, branches, tree, mighty wind · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (tongue, mighty wind, tree), 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:pg976:26:70 # text = And now, though it still had the tone of a mighty wind roaring among the branches, it was also like a deep bass voice, speaking as distinctly as a tree could be expected to speak, the following words: 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 2 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 4 though though SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 still still ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 tone tone NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 mighty mighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 14 roaring roar VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 acl _ _ 15 among among ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 branches branch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 21 also also ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 22 like like ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 25 bass bass NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 speaking speak VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 nmod _ _ 29 as as ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 distinctly distinctly ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 31 as as SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj:pass _ _ 34 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 36 aux:pass _ _ 36 expected expect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 advcl _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 following follow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 42 amod _ _ 42 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | tongue | the tone of a mighty wind | | | now; still | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tone=Patient | | 2 | **roar** | gerund | a mighty wind *not said here* | | | the branches | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among branch=Location | | 3 | **is** | past | tongue | | | | | like a deep bass voice and the following words | tree rules | | 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | | | | | | distinctly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **expect** | could · passive | | a tree | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **speak** *speech: other* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a tree *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **follow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **intonate** | | | a mighty wind | | | | | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/26/69/) - next →: [sentence 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/26/71/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Fleece., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/26/)