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title: "Ah, this twilight is truly refreshing," said King Pluto, "after bei… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Ah, this twilight is truly refreshing," said King Pluto, "after being so tormented with that ugly and impertinent glare of the sun. How much more agreeable is lamplight or torchlight, more particularly when reflected from diamonds! Who acts: twilight, Pluto. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nath
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 109

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"Ah, this twilight is truly refreshing," said King Pluto, "after being so tormented with that ugly and impertinent glare of the sun. How much more agreeable is lamplight or torchlight, more particularly when reflected from diamonds!

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**Who acts:** twilight, Pluto · **What happens:** refresh, say, torment, be, reflect · **To what, where:** agreeable lamplight, diamonds · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (twilight, Pluto), 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:pg976:20:109
# text = "Ah, this twilight is truly refreshing," said King Pluto, "after being so tormented with that ugly and impertinent glare of the sun. How much more agreeable is lamplight or torchlight, more particularly when reflected from diamonds!
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	twilight	twilight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	refreshing	refresh	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:desc	_	_
13	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	aux:pass	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	tormented	torment	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	advcl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
22	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	impertinent	impertinent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
25	glare	glare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	sun.	sun.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
30	much	much	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	32	advmod	_	_
32	agreeable	agreeable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	lamplight	lamplight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	_
35	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	torchlight	torchlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	39	advmod	_	_
39	particularly	particularly	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
40	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	41	advmod	_	_
41	reflected	reflect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl	_	_
42	from	from	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refresh** *in a quote* | present · progressive | this twilight |  |  |  |  | truly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Pluto  King |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **torment** *in a quote* | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  | with that ugly glare of the sun. | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | agreeable lamplight or torchlight |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **reflect** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  | diamonds |  | particularly *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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