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title: Upon my word, as the head came waving and undulating through the air… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Upon my word, as the head came waving and undulating through the air, and reaching almost within arm's length of Prince Jason, it was a very hideous and uncomfortable sight. Who acts: head, it, my. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 5, with its dependen
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 91

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Upon my word, as the head came waving and undulating through the air, and reaching almost within arm's length of Prince Jason, it was a very hideous and uncomfortable sight.

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**Who acts:** head, it, my · **What happens:** come, wave, undulate, reach, be, word · **To what, where:** air, length, hideous sight

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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 (head, it, my), 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:pg976:29:91
# text = Upon my word, as the head came waving and undulating through the air, and reaching almost within arm's length of Prince Jason, it was a very hideous and uncomfortable sight.
1	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	waving	wave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	undulating	undulate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
12	through	through	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
17	reaching	reach	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	csubj	_	_
18	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
19	within	within	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Jason	Jason	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
30	very	very	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	hideous	hideous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	_
34	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the head |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wave** | gerund | the head *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **undulate** | gerund | the head *not said here* |  |  | the air |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Location |
| 4 | **reach** | gerund |  | arm's length of Prince Jason |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent length=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | past | it | a hideous sight |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **word** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «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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