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title: Never had she met with such exquisite flowers before--violets so lar… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Never had she met with such exquisite flowers before--violets so large and fragrant--roses with so rich and delicate a blush--such superb hyacinths and such aromatic pinks--and many others, some of which seemed to be of new shapes and colors. Who acts: Proserpina, some. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tal
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 27

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Never had she met with such exquisite flowers before--violets so large and fragrant--roses with so rich and delicate a blush--such superb hyacinths and such aromatic pinks--and many others, some of which seemed to be of new shapes and colors.

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**Who acts:** Proserpina, some · **What happens:** not meet, seem, be

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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 (Proserpina, some), 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:pg976:20:27
# text = Never had she met with such exquisite flowers before--violets so large and fragrant--roses with so rich and delicate a blush--such superb hyacinths and such aromatic pinks--and many others, some of which seemed to be of new shapes and colors.
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	exquisite	exquisite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	violets	violet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	fragrant	fragrant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
24	blush	blush	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	superb	superb	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	hyacinths	hyacinth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	aromatic	aromatic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	pinks	pink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	41	nsubj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	nmod	_	_
41	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	parataxis	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
43	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	cop	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	shapes	shape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	colors	color	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **meet** | past · perfect | Proserpina |  |  |  |  | with such exquisite flowers | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with flower=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **seem** | past | some |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | of new shapes and colors | 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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