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title: She was on the point of turning back in order to rejoin the sea nymp… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She was on the point of turning back in order to rejoin the sea nymphs, and sit with them on the moist sands, all twining wreaths together. Who acts: Proserpina, point. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 30

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She was on the point of turning back in order to rejoin the sea nymphs, and sit with them on the moist sands, all twining wreaths together.

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**Who acts:** Proserpina, point · **What happens:** be, turn back, rejoin, sit, twine · **To what, where:** point, sea nymphs, moist sands

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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, point), 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:pg976:20:30
# text = She was on the point of turning back in order to rejoin the sea nymphs, and sit with them on the moist sands, all twining wreaths together.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
8	back	back	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	12	mark	_	_
10	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	fixed	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	rejoin	rejoin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	nymphs	nymph	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	sit	sit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	moist	moist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	sands	sand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
27	twining	twine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	amod	_	_
28	wreaths	wreath	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
29	together	together	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Proserpina |  |  | the point |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **turn back** | gerund | the point *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **rejoin** | to-infinitive | the point *not said here* | the sea nymphs |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nymph=Patient |
| 4 | **sit** | infinitive |  |  |  | the moist sands and all twining wreaths |  | with nymphs *= nymph* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on sand=Location |
| 5 | **twine** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn coil-9.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |

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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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