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title: Surprised at the shrill piping of so many little voices, Hercules, a… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Surprised at the shrill piping of so many little voices, Hercules, after putting out the conflagration of his hair, gazed all round about, but could see nothing. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies., part 3, sentence 58

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Surprised at the shrill piping of so many little voices, Hercules, after putting out the conflagration of his hair, gazed all round about, but could see nothing.

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**What happens:** put out, gaze, see · **To what, where:** conflagration, nothing

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pygmies., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg976:9:58
# text = Surprised at the shrill piping of so many little voices, Hercules, after putting out the conflagration of his hair, gazed all round about, but could see nothing.
1	Surprised	surprised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	shrill	shrill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	piping	piping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	conflagration	conflagration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	gazed	gaze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
24	all	all	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	round	round	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
26	about	about	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
31	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put out** | gerund |  | the conflagration of conflagration's hair |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent conflagration=Goal |
| 2 | **gaze** | past |  |  |  |  |  | about, round *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **see** | could |  | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |

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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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