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title: Neither was all the dazzle of the precious stones, which flamed with… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Neither was all the dazzle of the precious stones, which flamed with their own light, worth one gleam of natural sunshine; nor could the most brilliant of the many-colored gems, which Proserpina had for playthings, vie with the simple beauty of the flowers she used to gather. Who acts: Neither, prec
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 60

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Neither was all the dazzle of the precious stones, which flamed with their own light, worth one gleam of natural sunshine; nor could the most brilliant of the many-colored gems, which Proserpina had for playthings, vie with the simple beauty of the flowers she used to gather.

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**Who acts:** Neither, precious stones, Proserpina, stones · **What happens:** be, flame, color, have, vie, use · **To what, where:** dazzle, colored gems, flowers

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Neither, precious stones, Proserpina, stones), 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:pg976:23:60
# text = Neither was all the dazzle of the precious stones, which flamed with their own light, worth one gleam of natural sunshine; nor could the most brilliant of the many-colored gems, which Proserpina had for playthings, vie with the simple beauty of the flowers she used to gather.
1	Neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dazzle	dazzle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	flamed	flame	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	gleam	gleam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
25	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	29	cc	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	29	advmod	_	_
29	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
32	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	colored	color	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	amod	_	_
35	gems	gem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	obj	_	_
38	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
39	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl:relcl	_	_
40	for	for	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	playthings	plaything	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	vie	vie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
44	with	with	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nmod	_	_
51	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
52	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	acl:relcl	_	_
53	to	to	PART	TO	_	54	mark	_	_
54	gather	gather	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Neither | all dazzle |  |  |  | of the precious stones | tree rules |
| 2 | **flame** | past | the precious stones |  |  |  |  | with stones's own light and worth one gleam of natural sunshine | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with light=Theme |
| 3 | **color** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **have** | past | Proserpina | the colored gems |  |  |  | for playthings | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient |
| 5 | **vie** | present | Neither *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the simple beauty of the flowers | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with beauty=Co-Agent |
| 6 | **use** | past | Proserpina | the flowers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent flower=Theme clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **gather** | to-infinitive | Proserpina *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **light** |  | stones *= stone* |  |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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