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title: But when a poet gets into the habit of using his heartstrings to mak… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But when a poet gets into the habit of using his heartstrings to make chords for his lyre, he may thrum upon them as much as he will, without any great pain to himself. Who acts: poet, habit. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, with its dependency
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 78

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But when a poet gets into the habit of using his heartstrings to make chords for his lyre, he may thrum upon them as much as he will, without any great pain to himself.

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**Who acts:** poet, habit · **What happens:** get, use, make, thrum · **To what, where:** habit, heartstrings, chords

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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 (poet, habit), 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:pg976:22:78
# text = But when a poet gets into the habit of using his heartstrings to make chords for his lyre, he may thrum upon them as much as he will, without any great pain to himself.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	habit	habit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	using	use	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	heartstrings	heartstring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
15	chords	chord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	lyre	lyre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	thrum	thrum	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
23	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
25	as	as	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	ccomp	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	without	without	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	34	det	_	_
33	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | a poet |  |  | the habit |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into habit=Destination |
| 2 | **use** | gerund | the habit *not said here* | poet's heartstrings |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heartstring=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | the habit *not said here* | chords |  |  |  | for poet's lyre | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent chord=Product for lyre=Asset |
| 4 | **thrum** | may | poet |  |  |  |  | upon chords *= chord*; without any great pain to poet | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon they=Location |

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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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