--- title: Yes, and at some of his more moving tunes, the rocks bestirred their… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Yes, and at some of his more moving tunes, the rocks bestirred their moss-grown bulk out of the ground, and a grove of forest trees uprooted themselves, and, nodding their tops to one another, performed a country dance. Who acts: rocks, grove. 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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 (rocks, grove), 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:pg976:27:4 # text = Yes, and at some of his more moving tunes, the rocks bestirred their moss-grown bulk out of the ground, and a grove of forest trees uprooted themselves, and, nodding their tops to one another, performed a country dance. 1 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 31 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 31 obl _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 8 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 amod _ _ 9 moving move VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 amod _ _ 10 tunes tune NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 rocks rock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 14 bestirred bestir VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl _ _ 15 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 16 moss moss NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 amod _ _ 19 bulk bulk NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 20 out out ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 grove grove NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 31 uprooted uproot VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 32 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 nodding nod VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 advcl _ _ 37 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 tops top NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 36 obl _ _ 41 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 40 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 43 performed perform VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 45 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 compound _ _ 46 dance dance NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 31 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **move** | gerund | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **bestir** | participle | the rocks *not said here* | rocks's grown bulk | | the ground | | | tree rules | | 3 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **uproot** | past | a grove of forest trees | trees *= tree* | | some | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme | | 5 | **nod** | gerund | a grove of forest trees *not said here* | trees's tops | one | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent top=Theme to one=Recipient | | 6 | **perform** | past | a grove of forest trees *not said here* | a country dance | | | | | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Theme | 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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/27/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/27/5/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Fleece., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/27/)