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title: So she finally consented to go, and they set out together, both carr… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So she finally consented to go, and they set out together, both carrying torches, although it was broad daylight and clear sunshine. Who acts: Hecate, world, torch. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 29

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So she finally consented to go, and they set out together, both carrying torches, although it was broad daylight and clear sunshine.

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**Who acts:** Hecate, world, torch · **What happens:** consent, go, set out, carry, be · **To what, where:** torches, broad daylight

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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 (Hecate, world, 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:pg976:22:29
# text = So she finally consented to go, and they set out together, both carrying torches, although it was broad daylight and clear sunshine.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	consented	consent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	together	together	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc:preconj	_	_
15	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
16	torches	torch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	daylight	daylight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consent** | past | Hecate |  |  |  |  | finally *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | to-infinitive | Hecate *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **set out** | past | world |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **carry** | gerund | world *not said here* | torches |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent torch=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | past | torch | broad daylight and clear sunshine |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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