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title: A few summer weeks among mountains, a lifetime among green meadows a… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: A few summer weeks among mountains, a lifetime among green meadows and placid slopes, with outlines forever new, because continually fading out of the memory--such would be my sober choice. Who acts: green meadows. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Wayside. Introductory., 
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 10

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A few summer weeks among mountains, a lifetime among green meadows and placid slopes, with outlines forever new, because continually fading out of the memory--such would be my sober choice.

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**Who acts:** green meadows · **What happens:** fade, be · **To what, where:** memory, such sober choice

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Wayside. Introductory.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (green meadows), 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:pg976:2:10
# text = A few summer weeks among mountains, a lifetime among green meadows and placid slopes, with outlines forever new, because continually fading out of the memory--such would be my sober choice.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	among	among	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	lifetime	lifetime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
10	among	among	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	placid	placid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	slopes	slope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	outlines	outline	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
19	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	continually	continually	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	fading	fade	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
31	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	cop	_	_
33	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	sober	sober	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fade** | gerund | green meadows and placid slopes and outlines *not said here* |  |  | the memory and my such sober choice |  | continually *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | would | green meadows and placid slopes and outlines *not said here* | my such sober choice |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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