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title: These old legends, so brimming over with everything that is most abh… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: These old legends, so brimming over with everything that is most abhorrent to our Christianized moral sense some of them so hideous, others so melancholy and miserable, amid which the Greek tragedians sought their themes, and moulded them into the sternest forms of grief that ever the world saw; was
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 42

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These old legends, so brimming over with everything that is most abhorrent to our Christianized moral sense some of them so hideous, others so melancholy and miserable, amid which the Greek tragedians sought their themes, and moulded them into the sternest forms of grief that ever the world saw; was such material the stuff that children's playthings should be made of!

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**Who acts:** old legends, that, Greek tragedians, world, our · **What happens:** brim over, be, christianiz, seek, mould, see · **To what, where:** abhorrent, amid, themes, sternest forms, grief, such material

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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 (old legends, that, Greek tragedians, world), 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:pg976:2:42
# text = These old legends, so brimming over with everything that is most abhorrent to our Christianized moral sense some of them so hideous, others so melancholy and miserable, amid which the Greek tragedians sought their themes, and moulded them into the sternest forms of grief that ever the world saw; was such material the stuff that children's playthings should be made of!
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	brimming	brim	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
7	over	over	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	6	obl	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	13	advmod	_	_
13	abhorrent	abhorrent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
16	Christianized	christianiz	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
17	moral	moral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nmod	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	hideous	hideous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
26	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	miserable	miserable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	amid	amid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	obj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	tragedians	tragedian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
36	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
37	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	themes	theme	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	moulded	mould	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
42	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obj	_	_
43	into	into	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	sternest	stern	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	46	amod	_	_
46	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
49	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	53	obj	_	_
50	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	53	advmod	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
53	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
55	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	cop	_	_
56	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	material	material	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	parataxis	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	appos	_	_
60	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	66	obj	_	_
61	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	63	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	's	's	PART	POS	_	61	case	_	_
63	playthings	plaything	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	66	nsubj:pass	_	_
64	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	66	aux	_	_
65	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	66	aux:pass	_	_
66	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	59	acl:relcl	_	_
67	of	of	ADP	IN	_	66	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	41	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **brim over** | gerund | this old legends *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with everything; to our Christianized moral sense and others; so melancholy and amid; over *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | that | abhorrent |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **christianiz** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **seek** | past | the Greek tragedians | amid |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **mould** | past | this old legends | themes *= theme* |  | the sternest forms of grief |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **see** | past | the world | grief |  |  | ever |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
| 7 | **is a** | past |  | such material |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **make** | should · passive |  | children's playthings |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary that=Product |
| 9 | **sense** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom sense «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 10 | **form** |  |  | grief |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=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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