--- title: It is melancholy to think of her, pursuing her toilsome way, all alo… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: It is melancholy to think of her, pursuing her toilsome way, all alone, and holding up that never-dying torch, the flame of which seemed an emblem of the grief and hope that burned together in her heart. Who acts: hope, that, flame. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hope, that, flame), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg976:22:88 # text = It is melancholy to think of her, pursuing her toilsome way, all alone, and holding up that never-dying torch, the flame of which seemed an emblem of the grief and hope that burned together in her heart. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 melancholy melancholy NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 acl _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 pursuing pursue VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 toilsome toilsome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 all all ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 alone alone ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 holding hold VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 conj _ _ 19 up up ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 20 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 21 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 23 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 dying die VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 parataxis _ _ 24 torch torch NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 flame flame NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 appos _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 30 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 31 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 emblem emblem NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 grief grief NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 hope hope NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 38 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 39 nsubj _ _ 39 burned burn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ _ 40 together together ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | hope | melancholy | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | | | | | | of Ceres | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **pursue** | gerund | | Ceres's toilsome way | | | | alone *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | | 4 | **hold up** | gerund | | | | | | | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | | 5 | **not** **die** | gerund | that | torch | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **seem** | past | the flame | a emblem of the grief and hope | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme emblem=Attribute | | 7 | **burn** | past | hope | | | Ceres's heart | | together *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in heart=Location | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/22/87/) - next →: [sentence 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/22/89/) - ↑ back to [The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/22/)