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title: All along the road, indeed, there were sparkling gems, which would h… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: All along the road, indeed, there were sparkling gems, which would have been of inestimable value above ground, but which here were reckoned of the meaner sort and hardly worth a beggar's stooping for. Who acts: sparkling gems, beggar. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pom
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 9

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All along the road, indeed, there were sparkling gems, which would have been of inestimable value above ground, but which here were reckoned of the meaner sort and hardly worth a beggar's stooping for.

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**Who acts:** sparkling gems, beggar · **What happens:** be, sparkle, have, reckon, stoop · **To what, where:** road, inestimable value

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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 (sparkling gems, beggar), 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:pg976:21:9
# text = All along the road, indeed, there were sparkling gems, which would have been of inestimable value above ground, but which here were reckoned of the meaner sort and hardly worth a beggar's stooping for.
1	All	all	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	along	along	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
9	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	sparkling	sparkle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	amod	_	_
11	gems	gem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	xcomp	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	inestimable	inestimable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	above	above	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	reckoned	reckon	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	meaner	mean	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	31	amod	_	_
31	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	beggar	beggar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	's	's	PART	POS	_	36	case	_	_
38	stooping	stoop	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	acl	_	_
39	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | sparkling gems |  |  | the road; there |  | indeed *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=Location |
| 2 | **sparkle** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | infinitive | sparkling gems *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **reckon** | past · passive |  | inestimable value above ground |  | here |  | of the meaner sort | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Attribute |
| 5 | **stoop** | gerund | a beggar *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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