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title: In various directions he kept poking his ugly snout among the trees,… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In various directions he kept poking his ugly snout among the trees, stretching out his neck a terrible long way, now here, now there, and now close to the spot where Jason and the princess were hiding behind an oak. Who acts: antelope, Jason. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne,
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 90

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In various directions he kept poking his ugly snout among the trees, stretching out his neck a terrible long way, now here, now there, and now close to the spot where Jason and the princess were hiding behind an oak.

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**Who acts:** antelope, Jason · **What happens:** keep, poke, stretch out, hide · **To what, where:** various directions, ugly snout, neck, oak

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (antelope, Jason), 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:pg976:29:90
# text = In various directions he kept poking his ugly snout among the trees, stretching out his neck a terrible long way, now here, now there, and now close to the spot where Jason and the princess were hiding behind an oak.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	directions	direction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	poking	poke	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	snout	snout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	among	among	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	stretching	stretch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	conj	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
24	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
27	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	_
31	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	41	advmod	_	_
36	Jason	Jason	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
40	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	acl:relcl	_	_
42	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | antelope |  |  | various directions |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **poke** | gerund | antelope *not said here* | antelope's ugly snout |  |  |  | among the trees | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent snout=Theme |
| 3 | **stretch out** | gerund | antelope *not said here* | antelope's neck |  | here |  | a terrible long way *obl:unmarked* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent neck=Patient |
| 4 | **hide** | past · progressive | Jason and the princess |  |  | a oak |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind oak=Location |

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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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