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title: Thus passed the night; and still she continued her search without si… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus passed the night; and still she continued her search without sitting down to rest, or stopping to take food, or even remembering to put out the torch although first the rosy dawn, and then the glad light of the morning sun, made its red flame look thin and pale. Who acts: child, red flame, torc
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 80

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Thus passed the night; and still she continued her search without sitting down to rest, or stopping to take food, or even remembering to put out the torch although first the rosy dawn, and then the glad light of the morning sun, made its red flame look thin and pale.

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**Who acts:** child, red flame, torch · **What happens:** pass, continue, sit down, rest, stop, take · **To what, where:** glad light, search, food, torch, red flame, morning sun

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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 (child, red flame, torch), 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:pg976:21:80
# text = Thus passed the night; and still she continued her search without sitting down to rest, or stopping to take food, or even remembering to put out the torch although first the rosy dawn, and then the glad light of the morning sun, made its red flame look thin and pale.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	still	still	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	advcl	_	_
14	down	down	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	stopping	stop	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	even	even	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	remembering	remember	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	out	out	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	torch	torch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
33	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	36	advmod	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	rosy	rosy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
39	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	42	advmod	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
48	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
49	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
50	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
52	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	xcomp	_	_
53	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	xcomp	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past |  | the glad light of the morning sun |  |  | night | thus *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **continue** | past | child | child's search |  |  | still |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent search=Theme |
| 3 | **sit down** | gerund | child *not said here* |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **rest** | to-infinitive | child *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **stop** | gerund | child *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **take** | to-infinitive | child *not said here* | food |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme |
| 7 | **remember** | gerund | child *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 8 | **put out** | to-infinitive | child *not said here* | the torch |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent torch=Goal |
| 9 | **make** | past |  | torch's red flame |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **look** | infinitive | torch's red flame *not said here* |  |  |  |  | thin *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 11 | **search** |  | child |  |  |  |  |  | nom search «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 12 | **light** |  |  | the morning sun |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
| 13 | **flame** |  | torch |  |  |  |  |  | nom flame «process intransitive»: 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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