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title: The king, hearing the hiss of the serpents, scrambled as fast as he… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The king, hearing the hiss of the serpents, scrambled as fast as he could to the window, and bawled out to the abominable enchantress never to come back. Who acts: king. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 66

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The king, hearing the hiss of the serpents, scrambled as fast as he could to the window, and bawled out to the abominable enchantress never to come back.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** hear, scramble, bawl out, not come back, hiss · **To what, where:** hiss, abominable enchantress, serpents

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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:pg976:4:66
# text = The king, hearing the hiss of the serpents, scrambled as fast as he could to the window, and bawled out to the abominable enchantress never to come back.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hiss	hiss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	serpents	serpent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	scrambled	scramble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	as	as	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	bawled	bawl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	abominable	abominable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	enchantress	enchantress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	parataxis	_	_
31	back	back	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | gerund | the king *not said here* | the hiss of the serpents |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer hiss=Stimulus |
| 2 | **scramble** | past | the king |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bawl out** *speech: other* | participle | the king *not said here* |  | the abominable enchantress |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to enchantress=Recipient |
| 4 | **not** **come back** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **hiss** |  |  | the serpents |  |  |  |  | nom hiss «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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