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title: And besides, there is such a glare of the sun about him, that he wil… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And besides, there is such a glare of the sun about him, that he will quite blind my poor eyes, which I have almost wept away already." Who acts: poor eyes. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 38

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And besides, there is such a glare of the sun about him, that he will quite blind my poor eyes, which I have almost wept away already."

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**Who acts:** poor eyes · **What happens:** be, weep away · **To what, where:** glare

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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 (poor eyes), 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:pg976:22:38
# text = And besides, there is such a glare of the sun about him, that he will quite blind my poor eyes, which I have almost wept away already."
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	besides	besides	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	8	det:predet	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	glare	glare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	about	about	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	obj	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	wept	weep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
29	away	away	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	already	already	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | such glare |  |  |  | of the sun about man | tree rules |
| 2 | **weep away** | present · perfect | my poor eyes |  |  |  |  | almost, away *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent which=Theme |

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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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