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title: The truth was, however, that the oaken lips had moved, and, to all a… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The truth was, however, that the oaken lips had moved, and, to all appearance, the voice had proceeded from the statue's mouth. 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 97

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The truth was, however, that the oaken lips had moved, and, to all appearance, the voice had proceeded from the statue's mouth.

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**What happens:** move, proceed · **To what, where:** truth, voice, mouth

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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: 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:pg976:26:97
# text = The truth was, however, that the oaken lips had moved, and, to all appearance, the voice had proceeded from the statue's mouth.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	however	however	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	oaken	oaken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	moved	move	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	proceeded	proceed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	statue	statue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | past · perfect · passive |  | the truth |  |  |  | however *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **proceed** | past · perfect · passive |  | the voice |  | the statue's mouth |  | to all appearance | tree rules |

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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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