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title: But still, whenever the girl went among those gilded halls and chamb… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But still, whenever the girl went among those gilded halls and chambers, it seemed as if she carried nature and sunshine along with her, and as if she scattered dewy blossoms on her right hand and on her left. Who acts: girl, it. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegrana
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 61

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But still, whenever the girl went among those gilded halls and chambers, it seemed as if she carried nature and sunshine along with her, and as if she scattered dewy blossoms on her right hand and on her left.

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**Who acts:** girl, it · **What happens:** go, gild, seem, carry, scatter · **To what, where:** gilded halls, nature, dewy blossoms, right hand

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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 (girl, it), 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:pg976:23:61
# text = But still, whenever the girl went among those gilded halls and chambers, it seemed as if she carried nature and sunshine along with her, and as if she scattered dewy blossoms on her right hand and on her left.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	still	still	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	7	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	among	among	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
10	gilded	gild	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	halls	hall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	chambers	chamber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
21	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	along	along	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	scattered	scatter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
33	dewy	dewy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
37	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
40	on	on	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	left	left	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the girl |  |  | that gilded halls and chambers | still | whenever *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme among hall=Location |
| 2 | **gild** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **seem** | past | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **carry** | past | girl | nature and sunshine |  |  |  | along Proserpina | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nature=Theme |
| 5 | **scatter** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | girl | dewy blossoms |  | Proserpina's right hand and Proserpina's left |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent blossom=Theme on hand=Destination |

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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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