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title: There they beheld a beautiful young man, with long, curling ringlets… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There they beheld a beautiful young man, with long, curling ringlets, which seemed to be made of golden sunbeams; his garments were like light summer clouds; and the expression of his face was so exceedingly vivid, that Hecate held her hands before her eyes, muttering that he ought to wear a black v
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 43

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There they beheld a beautiful young man, with long, curling ringlets, which seemed to be made of golden sunbeams; his garments were like light summer clouds; and the expression of his face was so exceedingly vivid, that Hecate held her hands before her eyes, muttering that he ought to wear a black veil.

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**Who acts:** eyes, ringlets, garments, expression, Hecate, man · **What happens:** behold, curl, seem, make, be, hold · **To what, where:** beautiful young man, ringlets, hands, eyes, black veil · **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, ringlets, garments, expression), 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:pg976:22:43
# text = There they beheld a beautiful young man, with long, curling ringlets, which seemed to be made of golden sunbeams; his garments were like light summer clouds; and the expression of his face was so exceedingly vivid, that Hecate held her hands before her eyes, muttering that he ought to wear a black veil.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	beheld	behold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	curling	curl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
13	ringlets	ringlet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	xcomp	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	sunbeams	sunbeam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	garments	garment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
27	like	like	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	expression	expression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
39	so	so	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
40	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	vivid	vivid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
44	Hecate	Hecate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
45	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
46	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obj	_	_
48	before	before	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
52	muttering	mutter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	45	advcl	_	_
53	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
54	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
55	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
56	to	to	PART	TO	_	57	mark	_	_
57	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	ccomp	_	_
58	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
59	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
60	veil	veil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **behold** | past | eyes *= eye* | a beautiful young man |  | there |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |
| 2 | **curl** | gerund | eyes *= eye* *not said here* | ringlets |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ringlet=Patient |
| 3 | **seem** | past | ringlets |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive · passive | ringlets *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of golden sunbeams | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» |
| 5 | **is** | past | man's garments |  |  |  |  | like light summer clouds | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | past | the expression of man's face |  |  |  |  | exceedingly, vivid *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **hold** | past | Hecate | Hecate's hands |  | Hecate's eyes |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hand=Theme before eye=Location |
| 8 | **mutter** *speech: assert* | gerund | Hecate *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 9 | **wear** | ought | man | a black veil |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent veil=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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