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title: But, all this while, he had held the snow-white flower in his hand,… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But, all this while, he had held the snow-white flower in his hand, and had constantly smelt of it while Circe was speaking; and as he crossed the threshold of the saloon, he took good care to inhale several long and deep snuffs of its fragrance. Who acts: Ulysses. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» b
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 36

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But, all this while, he had held the snow-white flower in his hand, and had constantly smelt of it while Circe was speaking; and as he crossed the threshold of the saloon, he took good care to inhale several long and deep snuffs of its fragrance.

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**Who acts:** Ulysses · **What happens:** hold, have, speak, cross, take, inhale · **To what, where:** while, smelt, threshold, good care, several long snuffs · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., 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 (Ulysses), 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:pg976:18:36
# text = But, all this while, he had held the snow-white flower in his hand, and had constantly smelt of it while Circe was speaking; and as he crossed the threshold of the saloon, he took good care to inhale several long and deep snuffs of its fragrance.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
21	constantly	constantly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	smelt	smelt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nmod	_	_
25	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	Circe	Circe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
31	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	crossed	cross	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	advcl	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	threshold	threshold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	saloon	saloon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
42	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
45	inhale	inhale	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	acl	_	_
46	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
47	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	conj	_	_
50	snuffs	snuff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obj	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	fragrance	fragrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | past · perfect · passive |  | all while |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme flower=Eventuality |
| 2 | **have** | past |  | smelt of smelt |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smelt=Patient |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | past · progressive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **cross** | past | Ulysses | the threshold of the saloon |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent threshold=Patient |
| 5 | **take** | past | Ulysses | good care |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 6 | **inhale** | to-infinitive | Ulysses *not said here* | several long snuffs of saloon's fragrance |  |  |  |  | vn exhale-40.1.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snuff=Theme |

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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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