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title: And mark that richest voice of all, so pleasant and so familiar, but… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And mark that richest voice of all, so pleasant and so familiar, but which yet seems to have the authority of a mistress among them. Who acts: that. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 2, sentence 56

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And mark that richest voice of all, so pleasant and so familiar, but which yet seems to have the authority of a mistress among them.

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**Who acts:** that · **What happens:** voice, seem, have · **To what, where:** authority

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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 (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:pg976:16:56
# text = And mark that richest voice of all, so pleasant and so familiar, but which yet seems to have the authority of a mistress among them.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	richest	rich	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	appos	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	familiar	familiar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	authority	authority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	among	among	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **voice** *speech: other* |  | that |  |  |  |  | of all | tree rules |
| 2 | **seem** | present |  |  |  |  | yet |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **have** | to-infinitive |  | the authority of a mistress among mark |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent authority=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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