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title: And when the ringing voice ceased, there was just such a reverberati… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And when the ringing voice ceased, there was just such a reverberation as you may have heard within a great church bell, for a moment or two after the stroke of the hammer. Who acts: ringing voice, reverberation, you. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 3, wi
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 46

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And when the ringing voice ceased, there was just such a reverberation as you may have heard within a great church bell, for a moment or two after the stroke of the hammer.

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**Who acts:** ringing voice, reverberation, you · **What happens:** cease, be, hear, stroke · **To what, where:** reverberation, hammer

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ringing voice, reverberation, you), 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:pg976:5:46
# text = And when the ringing voice ceased, there was just such a reverberation as you may have heard within a great church bell, for a moment or two after the stroke of the hammer.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	ringing	ringing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	ceased	cease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
9	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	just	just	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	13	det:predet	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	reverberation	reverberation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux	_	_
18	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	acl:relcl	_	_
19	within	within	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	conj	_	_
30	after	after	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	stroke	stroke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	hammer	hammer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cease** | participle | the ringing voice |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **be** | past | such reverberation |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hear** | may · perfect | you | such reverberation *not said here* |  |  | moment | within a great church bell | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer reverberation=Stimulus |
| 4 | **stroke** |  |  | the hammer |  |  |  |  | nom stroke «act 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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