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title: Though it was midday, and the sun shone brightly over the marble fro… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Though it was midday, and the sun shone brightly over the marble front, yet its snowy whiteness, and its fantastic style of architecture, made it look unreal, like the frost work on a window pane, or like the shapes of castles which one sees among the clouds by moonlight. Who acts: palace, midday, s
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 30

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Though it was midday, and the sun shone brightly over the marble front, yet its snowy whiteness, and its fantastic style of architecture, made it look unreal, like the frost work on a window pane, or like the shapes of castles which one sees among the clouds by moonlight.

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**Who acts:** palace, midday, snowy whiteness, one, moonlight · **What happens:** be, shine, make, look, see, cloud · **To what, where:** midday, marble front, palace

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., 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 (palace, midday, snowy whiteness, one), 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:pg976:16:30
# text = Though it was midday, and the sun shone brightly over the marble front, yet its snowy whiteness, and its fantastic style of architecture, made it look unreal, like the frost work on a window pane, or like the shapes of castles which one sees among the clouds by moonlight.
1	Though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	midday	midday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	brightly	brightly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	over	over	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	marble	marble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
16	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
17	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	snowy	snowy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	whiteness	whiteness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	fantastic	fantastic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	style	style	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	architecture	architecture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
28	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	unreal	unreal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	like	like	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	frost	frost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	pane	pane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
43	like	like	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	shapes	shape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	appos	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	castles	castle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nmod	_	_
48	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	49	det	_	_
49	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
50	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	parataxis	_	_
51	among	among	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	obl	_	_
54	by	by	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | palace | midday and the sun |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **shine** | past | midday and the sun |  |  | the marble front |  | brightly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over front=Location |
| 3 | **make** | past | palace's snowy whiteness | palace |  |  |  | like the frost work on a window pane | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** | infinitive | palace *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unreal *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **see** | present | which one |  |  |  |  | among the clouds by moonlight | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **cloud** |  | moonlight |  |  |  |  |  | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: by=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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