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title: It was enough to bring tears into the eyes of bearded men to hear th… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It was enough to bring tears into the eyes of bearded men to hear the melancholy tone with which she inquired of every stranger whether he could not tell her any news of the lost child. Who acts: It, queen, man. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, wi
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 82

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It was enough to bring tears into the eyes of bearded men to hear the melancholy tone with which she inquired of every stranger whether he could not tell her any news of the lost child.

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**Who acts:** It, queen, man · **What happens:** be, bring, hear, inquire, not tell, lose · **To what, where:** tears, eyes, melancholy tone, news, queen · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (It, queen, man), 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:pg976:11:82
# text = It was enough to bring tears into the eyes of bearded men to hear the melancholy tone with which she inquired of every stranger whether he could not tell her any news of the lost child.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	bearded	bearded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obl	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	inquired	inquire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
30	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	iobj	_	_
31	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	32	det	_	_
32	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	amod	_	_
36	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | It |  |  |  |  | enough *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring** | to-infinitive |  | tears |  | the eyes of bearded men |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tear=Theme into eye=Destination |
| 3 | **hear** | to-infinitive |  | the melancholy tone |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tone=Stimulus |
| 4 | **inquire** *speech: other* | past | queen |  |  |  |  | with the melancholy tone; of every stranger | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of stranger=Recipient |
| 5 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | could | man | any news of the lost child | queen |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient news=Topic |
| 6 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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