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title: They fall away, and are thought of no more, the instant he puts his… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They fall away, and are thought of no more, the instant he puts his imagination in sympathy with the innocent little circle, whose wide-open eyes are fixed so eagerly upon him. Who acts: characteristics, instant. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Wayside. Introductory., wi
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside. Introductory., sentence 47

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They fall away, and are thought of no more, the instant he puts his imagination in sympathy with the innocent little circle, whose wide-open eyes are fixed so eagerly upon him.

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**Who acts:** characteristics, instant · **What happens:** fall away, think, put, fix, imagine · **To what, where:** more, imagination, sympathy, wide open eyes

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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 (characteristics, instant), 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:pg976:2:47
# text = They fall away, and are thought of no more, the instant he puts his imagination in sympathy with the innocent little circle, whose wide-open eyes are fixed so eagerly upon him.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	puts	put	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	imagination	imagination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	sympathy	sympathy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	innocent	innocent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	circle	circle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
26	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	30	nmod:poss	_	_
27	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
33	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
35	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall away** | present | characteristics *= characteristic* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | no more |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: more=Theme |
| 3 | **put** | present | the instant | instant's imagination |  | sympathy |  | with the innocent little circle | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent imagination=Theme in sympathy=Destination |
| 4 | **fix** | present · passive |  | wide open eyes |  |  |  | upon instant; eagerly *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **imagine** |  | instant |  |  |  |  |  | nom imagination «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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