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title: The moon was now high aloft in the heavens, and threw its bright bea… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The moon was now high aloft in the heavens, and threw its bright beams over the plowed field, where as yet there was nothing to be seen. Who acts: moon, dragon. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 95

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The moon was now high aloft in the heavens, and threw its bright beams over the plowed field, where as yet there was nothing to be seen.

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**Who acts:** moon, dragon · **What happens:** be, throw, plow, see, beam · **To what, where:** heavens, bright beams, plowed field

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon, dragon), 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:pg976:28:95
# text = The moon was now high aloft in the heavens, and threw its bright beams over the plowed field, where as yet there was nothing to be seen.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
5	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	aloft	aloft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	heavens	heaven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	beams	beam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	over	over	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	plowed	plow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	25	advmod	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	25	obl	_	_
24	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	25	expl	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
26	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	25	nsubj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the moon |  |  | the heavens | now | aloft *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **throw** | past |  | dragon's bright beams |  | the plowed field |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent beam=Theme over field=Destination |
| 3 | **plow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |
| 5 | **beam** |  | dragon |  |  |  |  |  | nom beam «communication 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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