--- title: She even shed a tear or two, thinking how lonely and cheerless the g… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: She even shed a tear or two, thinking how lonely and cheerless the great palace would seem to him, with all its ugly glare of artificial light, after she herself--his one little ray of natural sunshine, whom he had stolen, to be sure, but only because he valued her so much--after she should have dep --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/24/29/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Tanglewood Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/) / [The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/24/) / 29 # Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 29 She even shed a tear or two, thinking how lonely and cheerless the great palace would seem to him, with all its ugly glare of artificial light, after she herself--his one little ray of natural sunshine, whom he had stolen, to be sure, but only because he valued her so much--after she should have departed. **Who acts:** deal, great palace, Pluto · **What happens:** shed, think, cheerless, seem, steal, be · **To what, where:** tear, Pluto, one little ray, deal, natural sunshine · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deal, great palace, Pluto), 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:pg976:24:29 # text = She even shed a tear or two, thinking how lonely and cheerless the great palace would seem to him, with all its ugly glare of artificial light, after she herself--his one little ray of natural sunshine, whom he had stolen, to be sure, but only because he valued her so much--after she should have departed. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 even even ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 shed shed VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 tear tear NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 10 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 11 lonely lonely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 advcl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 cheerless cheerless VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 seem seem VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 23 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 26 det:predet _ _ 24 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 ugly ugly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 glare glare NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 artificial artificial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 after after ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 -- -- PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 36 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 38 nummod _ _ 37 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 ray ray NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 appos _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 natural natural ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 sunshine sunshine NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 43 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 46 nsubj:pass _ _ 44 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 45 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 46 stolen steal VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 48 to to PART TO _ 50 mark _ _ 49 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 50 cop _ _ 50 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 52 but but CCONJ CC _ 56 cc _ _ 53 only only ADV RB _ 56 advmod _ _ 54 because because SCONJ IN _ 56 mark _ _ 55 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 56 nsubj _ _ 56 valued value VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 57 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 56 obj _ _ 58 so so ADV RB _ 59 advmod _ _ 59 much much ADV RB _ 56 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 60 -- -- PUNCT , _ 65 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 61 after after SCONJ IN _ 65 mark _ _ 62 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 65 nsubj _ _ 63 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 65 aux _ _ 64 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 65 aux _ _ 65 departed depart VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 56 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 66 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shed** | past | deal | a tear | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tear=Source | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | deal *not said here* | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **cheerless** | present | the great palace *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **seem** | would | the great palace | | Pluto | | after deal | with palace's ugly glare of artificial light | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **steal** | past · perfect · passive | | Pluto's one little ray of natural sunshine | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | | 6 | **is** | to-infinitive | | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **value** | past | Pluto | deal | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | | 8 | **depart** | should · perfect | deal | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **ray** | | Pluto | natural sunshine | | | | | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent of=patient | 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 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/24/28/) - next →: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/24/30/) - ↑ back to [The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/24/)