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title: It was a sorrowful prospect for these wanderers, that on the morrow… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It was a sorrowful prospect for these wanderers, that on the morrow they must again set forth, and that, after many nightfalls, they would perhaps be no nearer the close of their toilsome pilgrimage than now. Who acts: close, mother, that. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 27

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It was a sorrowful prospect for these wanderers, that on the morrow they must again set forth, and that, after many nightfalls, they would perhaps be no nearer the close of their toilsome pilgrimage than now.

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**Who acts:** close, mother, that · **What happens:** be, set, not be, close · **To what, where:** sorrowful prospect, morrow

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., 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 (close, mother, that), 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:pg976:11:27
# text = It was a sorrowful prospect for these wanderers, that on the morrow they must again set forth, and that, after many nightfalls, they would perhaps be no nearer the close of their toilsome pilgrimage than now.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	prospect	prospect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	wanderers	wanderer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	appos	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	again	again	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	after	after	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	nightfalls	nightfall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
28	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
29	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	cop	_	_
31	no	no	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	34	amod	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	close	close	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
37	toilsome	toilsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	pilgrimage	pilgrimage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
39	than	than	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | close | a sorrowful prospect and the nearer close |  |  |  | for this wanderers | tree rules |
| 2 | **set** | must | mother | the morrow *not said here* |  |  | again | forth *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient morrow=Result |
| 3 | **not** **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | near, perhaps *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **close** | would | that |  |  |  |  | of mother's toilsome pilgrimage | tree rules |

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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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