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title: All day she traveled onward through the hot sun; and, at night again… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: All day she traveled onward through the hot sun; and, at night again, the flame of the torch would redden and gleam along the pathway, and she continued her search by its light, without ever sitting down to rest. Who acts: Mother, flame, torch. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 2

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All day she traveled onward through the hot sun; and, at night again, the flame of the torch would redden and gleam along the pathway, and she continued her search by its light, without ever sitting down to rest.

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**Who acts:** Mother, flame, torch · **What happens:** travel, redden, gleam, continue, sit down, rest · **To what, where:** hot sun, pathway, search

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mother, 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:pg976:22:2
# text = All day she traveled onward through the hot sun; and, at night again, the flame of the torch would redden and gleam along the pathway, and she continued her search by its light, without ever sitting down to rest.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	traveled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	onward	onward	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	again	again	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	torch	torch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	redden	redden	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	gleam	gleam	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
26	along	along	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	pathway	pathway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
33	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	by	by	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
40	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	41	advmod	_	_
41	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	advcl	_	_
42	down	down	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **travel** | past | Mother |  |  | the hot sun | day | onward *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through sun=Trajectory |
| 2 | **redden** | would | the flame of the torch |  |  |  | night |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **gleam** | infinitive | the flame of the torch *not said here* |  |  | the pathway |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along pathway=Location |
| 4 | **continue** | past | Mother | Mother's search |  |  |  | by flame's light | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent search=Theme |
| 5 | **sit down** | gerund | Mother *not said here* |  |  |  | ever | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **rest** | to-infinitive | Mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **flame** |  | the torch |  |  |  |  |  | nom flame «process intransitive»: of=agent |
| 8 | **search** |  | Mother |  |  |  |  |  | nom search «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 9 | **light** |  | flame |  |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon 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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