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title: On the left arm was a shield, and in its center appeared a lifelike… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: On the left arm was a shield, and in its center appeared a lifelike representation of the head of Medusa with the snaky locks. Who acts: center. 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 88

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On the left arm was a shield, and in its center appeared a lifelike representation of the head of Medusa with the snaky locks.

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**Who acts:** center · **What happens:** be, appear, represent · **To what, where:** shield, left arm, lifelike representation, head

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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 (center), 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:pg976:26:88
# text = On the left arm was a shield, and in its center appeared a lifelike representation of the head of Medusa with the snaky locks.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	shield	shield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	center	center	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	lifelike	lifelike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	representation	representation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Medusa	Medusa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	snaky	snaky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	locks	lock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | a shield |  | the left arm |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **appear** | past | shield's center | a lifelike representation of the head of Medusa |  |  |  | with the snaky locks | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location representation=Theme |
| 3 | **represent** |  |  | the head of Medusa |  |  |  |  | nom representation «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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