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title: We gloomy and cloudy-natured persons have often as warm hearts, at b… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: We gloomy and cloudy-natured persons have often as warm hearts, at bottom, as those of a more cheerful character. Who acts: gloomy natured persons. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 66

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We gloomy and cloudy-natured persons have often as warm hearts, at bottom, as those of a more cheerful character.

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**Who acts:** gloomy natured persons · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** warm hearts

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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 (gloomy natured persons), 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:pg976:23:66
# text = We gloomy and cloudy-natured persons have often as warm hearts, at bottom, as those of a more cheerful character.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	cloudy	cloudy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	natured	natured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	often	often	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
22	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | gloomy natured persons | warm hearts and bottom |  |  |  | as those | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient |

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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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