--- title: It looks, and is, as evanescent as a dream; and yet, in its rustic n… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: It looks, and is, as evanescent as a dream; and yet, in its rustic network of boughs, it has somehow enclosed a hint of spiritual beauty, and has become a true emblem of the subtile and ethereal mind that planned it. Who acts: thing, subtile mind, spiritual beauty. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» b --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/2/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Tanglewood Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/) / [The Wayside. Introductory.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/2/) / 13 # Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 13 It looks, and is, as evanescent as a dream; and yet, in its rustic network of boughs, it has somehow enclosed a hint of spiritual beauty, and has become a true emblem of the subtile and ethereal mind that planned it. **Who acts:** thing, subtile mind, spiritual beauty · **What happens:** look, be, enclose, become, plan, hint · **To what, where:** thing, true emblem 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 (thing, subtile mind, spiritual beauty), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg976:2:13 # text = It looks, and is, as evanescent as a dream; and yet, in its rustic network of boughs, it has somehow enclosed a hint of spiritual beauty, and has become a true emblem of the subtile and ethereal mind that planned it. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 as as ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 evanescent evanescent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 9 as as ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 dream dream NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 yet yet ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 rustic rustic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 network network NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 boughs bough NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 somehow somehow ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 enclosed enclose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 hint hint NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 spiritual spiritual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 beauty beauty NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 become become VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 parataxis _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 emblem emblem NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 xcomp _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 41 subtile subtile ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 ethereal ethereal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 conj _ _ 44 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 45 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 46 nsubj _ _ 46 planned plan VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 acl:relcl _ _ 47 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | present | thing | | | | yet | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **is** | present | thing *not said here* | | | | | as a dream; evanescent *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **enclose** | present · perfect · passive | | thing | | | | somehow *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **become** | present · perfect | | a true emblem of the subtile mind | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **plan** | past | the subtile mind | thing | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 6 | **hint** | | spiritual beauty | | | | | | nom hint «communication intransitive»: of=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/2/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/2/14/) - ↑ back to [The Wayside. 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