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title: Accordingly, they went along in quest of Phoebus, both of them sighi… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Accordingly, they went along in quest of Phoebus, both of them sighing grievously, and Hecate, to say the truth, making a great deal worse lamentation than Ceres; for all the pleasure she had, you know, lay in being miserable, and therefore she made the most of it. Who acts: eyes, both, Hecate, you.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 41

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Accordingly, they went along in quest of Phoebus, both of them sighing grievously, and Hecate, to say the truth, making a great deal worse lamentation than Ceres; for all the pleasure she had, you know, lay in being miserable, and therefore she made the most of it.

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**Who acts:** eyes, both, Hecate, you, Phoebus · **What happens:** go along, sigh, say, make, have, know · **To what, where:** quest, truth, great deal, pleasure, most · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (eyes, both, Hecate, you), 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:pg976:22:41
# text = Accordingly, they went along in quest of Phoebus, both of them sighing grievously, and Hecate, to say the truth, making a great deal worse lamentation than Ceres; for all the pleasure she had, you know, lay in being miserable, and therefore she made the most of it.
1	Accordingly	accordingly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	along	along	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	quest	quest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Phoebus	phoebus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	_
14	sighing	sigh	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
15	grievously	grievously	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	Hecate	Hecate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	30	amod	_	_
30	lamentation	lamentation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
31	than	than	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Ceres	Ceres	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	37	det:predet	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
38	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
44	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	conj	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	47	cop	_	_
47	miserable	miserable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
50	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
51	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
52	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	52	obj	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go along** | past | eyes *= eye* |  |  | quest of Phoebus |  | accordingly, along *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in quest=Location |
| 2 | **sigh** | gerund | both |  |  |  |  | grievously *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Hecate | the truth |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent truth=Topic |
| 4 | **make** | gerund | Hecate *not said here* | a great deal |  |  |  | than Ceres | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset deal=Beneficiary lamentation=Product |
| 5 | **have** | past | Hecate | all pleasure *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Patient |
| 6 | **know** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **lay** | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | miserable *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **make** | past | Hecate | the most of pleasure |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Product |
| 10 | **quest** |  | Phoebus |  |  |  |  |  | nom quest «cognition intransitive»: of=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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