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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 62

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Proserpina's sense of beauty will be duly gratified, and even in spite of the lack of sunshine, she will lead a very enviable life."

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**Who acts:** Proserpina · **What happens:** gratify, lead, sense, spite, lack · **To what, where:** sense, spite, enviable life, beauty, lack, sunshine

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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 (Proserpina), 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:pg976:22:62
# text = Proserpina's sense of beauty will be duly gratified, and even in spite of the lack of sunshine, she will lead a very enviable life."
1	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	duly	duly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	gratified	gratify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	even	even	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	lack	lack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	very	very	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	enviable	enviable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gratify** | future · passive |  | Proserpina's sense of beauty |  | spite of the lack of sunshine |  | duly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **lead** | future | Proserpina | a enviable life |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme |
| 3 | **sense** |  | Proserpina | beauty |  |  |  |  | nom sense «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
| 4 | **spite** |  |  | the lack of sunshine |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **lack** |  |  | sunshine |  |  |  |  | nom lack «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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