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title: But, such was the virtue of the snow-white flower, instead of wallow… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But, such was the virtue of the snow-white flower, instead of wallowing down from his throne in swinish shape, or taking any other brutal form, Ulysses looked even more manly and king-like than before. Who acts: such virtue. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., p
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 61

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But, such was the virtue of the snow-white flower, instead of wallowing down from his throne in swinish shape, or taking any other brutal form, Ulysses looked even more manly and king-like than before.

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**Who acts:** such virtue · **What happens:** be, wallow down, take, look · **To what, where:** such virtue, throne, other brutal form

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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 (such virtue), 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:pg976:18:61
# text = But, such was the virtue of the snow-white flower, instead of wallowing down from his throne in swinish shape, or taking any other brutal form, Ulysses looked even more manly and king-like than before.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	virtue	virtue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	16	mark	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	wallowing	wallow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	appos	_	_
17	down	down	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	swinish	swinish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	conj	_	_
27	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	det	_	_
28	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	brutal	brutal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
32	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
34	even	even	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	36	advmod	_	_
36	manly	manly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	xcomp	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	conj	_	_
41	than	than	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	before	before	ADV	RB	_	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the such virtue |  |  |  | of the white flower | tree rules |
| 2 | **wallow down** | gerund |  |  |  | virtue's throne in swinish shape |  | down *property* | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **take** | gerund |  | any other brutal form |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme |
| 4 | **look** | past | the such virtue |  |  |  |  | manly *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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