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title: At all events, this was the way in which she began her sorrowful jou… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At all events, this was the way in which she began her sorrowful journey, holding her torch before her, and looking carefully at every object along the path. Who acts: events, mother, way. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, with its dependency tr
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 69

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At all events, this was the way in which she began her sorrowful journey, holding her torch before her, and looking carefully at every object along the path.

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**Who acts:** events, mother, way · **What happens:** be, begin, hold, look, journey · **To what, where:** way, sorrowful journey, torch

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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 (events, mother, way), 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:pg976:21:69
# text = At all events, this was the way in which she began her sorrowful journey, holding her torch before her, and looking carefully at every object along the path.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	events	event	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obl	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	torch	torch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	before	before	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
25	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	along	along	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | all events | the way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **begin** | past | mother | mother's sorrowful journey |  | the way |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Eventuality |
| 3 | **hold** | gerund | mother *not said here* | mother's torch |  |  | before mother |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent torch=Theme before she=Location |
| 4 | **look** | gerund | the way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | along the path; at every object; carefully *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at object=Theme |
| 5 | **journey** |  | mother |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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