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title: As the pair traveled along in this woe-begone manner, a thought stru… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As the pair traveled along in this woe-begone manner, a thought struck Ceres. Who acts: pair, thought. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 31

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As the pair traveled along in this woe-begone manner, a thought struck Ceres.

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**Who acts:** pair, thought · **What happens:** travel, strike · **To what, where:** begone manner, Ceres

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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 (pair, thought), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg976:1631`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg976:22:31
# text = As the pair traveled along in this woe-begone manner, a thought struck Ceres.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	traveled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
5	along	along	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
8	woe	woe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
10	begone	begone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **travel** | past | the pair |  |  | this begone manner |  | along *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in manner=Trajectory |
| 2 | **strike** | past | a thought | Ceres |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent ceres=Instrument |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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