--- title: There was a never-ceasing gloom, it is true, which half hid itself a… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: There was a never-ceasing gloom, it is true, which half hid itself among the innumerable pillars, gliding before the child as she wandered among them, and treading stealthily behind her in the echo of her footsteps. Who acts: gloom, half, palace. 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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 (gloom, half, palace), 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:pg976:23:59 # text = There was a never-ceasing gloom, it is true, which half hid itself among the innumerable pillars, gliding before the child as she wandered among them, and treading stealthily behind her in the echo of her footsteps. 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 4 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ceasing cease VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 amod _ _ 7 gloom gloom NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 14 det _ _ 14 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 15 nsubj _ _ 15 hid hide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 16 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 15 obj _ _ 17 among among ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 innumerable innumerable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 pillars pillar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 gliding glide VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 23 before before ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 as as SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 wandered wander VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 29 among among ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 treading tread VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 34 stealthily stealthily ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 35 behind behind ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obl _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 echo echo NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 footsteps footstep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **cease** | gerund | | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **is** | past | gloom | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **hide** | past | which half | half | | the innumerable pillars | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent itself=Patient among pillar=Location | | 4 | **glide** | gerund | which half *not said here* | | | | before the child | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before child=Trajectory | | 5 | **wander** | past | palace | | | | | among pillars *= pillar* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among they=Trajectory | | 6 | **tread** | gerund | gloom *not said here* | | | the echo of palace's footsteps | | behind palace; stealthily *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind she=Trajectory | 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 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/23/58/) - next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/23/60/) - ↑ back to [The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/23/)