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title: And yet there was a kind of gloom in the midst of this enchanted lig… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And yet there was a kind of gloom in the midst of this enchanted light; nor was there a single object in the hall that was really agreeable to behold, except the little Proserpina herself, a lovely child, with one earthly flower which she had not let fall from her hand. Who acts: single object. A se
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 30

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And yet there was a kind of gloom in the midst of this enchanted light; nor was there a single object in the hall that was really agreeable to behold, except the little Proserpina herself, a lovely child, with one earthly flower which she had not let fall from her hand.

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**Who acts:** single object · **What happens:** enchant, be, not let · **To what, where:** single object, hall, one earthly flower, hand

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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 (single object), 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:pg976:21:30
# text = And yet there was a kind of gloom in the midst of this enchanted light; nor was there a single object in the hall that was really agreeable to behold, except the little Proserpina herself, a lovely child, with one earthly flower which she had not let fall from her hand.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	gloom	gloom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
14	enchanted	enchant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	22	cc	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
19	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	really	really	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	agreeable	agreeable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	acl:relcl	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	29	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	except	except	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
37	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	36	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	with	with	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	46	nummod	_	_
45	earthly	earthly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
47	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	51	nsubj:pass	_	_
48	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj:pass	_	_
49	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
50	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	51	advmod	_	_
51	let	let	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	acl:relcl	_	_
52	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	_
53	from	from	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	55	nmod:poss	_	_
55	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enchant** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | a single object and a lovely child |  | the hall; there |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | a single object and a lovely child |  |  |  |  | except the little Proserpina; agreeable *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **let** | past · perfect · passive |  | one earthly flower |  | kind's hand |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient fall=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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