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title: It seemed as if he were doomed to lose everybody whom he loved, or t… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It seemed as if he were doomed to lose everybody whom he loved, or to see them perish in one way or another. Who acts: It, Cadmus, people. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 20

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It seemed as if he were doomed to lose everybody whom he loved, or to see them perish in one way or another.

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**Who acts:** It, Cadmus, people · **What happens:** seem, doom, lose, love, see, perish · **To what, where:** Cadmus, everybody, people, one way

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, Cadmus, people), 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:pg976:13:20
# text = It seemed as if he were doomed to lose everybody whom he loved, or to see them perish in one way or another.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	doomed	doom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	xcomp	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	9	obj	_	_
11	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	obj	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	perish	perish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **doom** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive |  | Cadmus |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lose** | to-infinitive |  | everybody |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everybody=Eventuality |
| 4 | **love** | past | Cadmus |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus |
| 5 | **see** | to-infinitive |  | people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **perish** | infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  | one way |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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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