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title: At all events, its water has one excellent quality; for a single dra… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At all events, its water has one excellent quality; for a single draught of it makes people forget every care and sorrow that has hitherto tormented them. Who acts: water, people. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, with its dependency tree and th
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 17

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At all events, its water has one excellent quality; for a single draught of it makes people forget every care and sorrow that has hitherto tormented them.

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**Who acts:** water, people · **What happens:** have, make, forget, torment · **To what, where:** one excellent quality, events, people, care

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, people), 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:pg976:21:17
# text = At all events, its water has one excellent quality; for a single draught of it makes people forget every care and sorrow that has hitherto tormented them.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	events	event	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	excellent	excellent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	quality	quality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	draught	draught	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	_
18	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
19	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	obj	_	_
26	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	hitherto	hitherto	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	tormented	torment	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Lethe's water | one excellent quality |  | all events |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quality=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | present | Lethe's water *not said here* | people |  |  |  | for a single draught of Lethe | tree rules |
| 3 | **forget** | infinitive | people *not said here* | every care and sorrow |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **torment** | present · perfect |  | every care and sorrow |  |  |  | hitherto *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus that=Experiencer they=Result |

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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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