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title: It was delightful to behold, as Proserpina hastened along, how the p… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It was delightful to behold, as Proserpina hastened along, how the path grew verdant behind and on either side of her. Who acts: gateway, path. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 34

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It was delightful to behold, as Proserpina hastened along, how the path grew verdant behind and on either side of her.

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**Who acts:** gateway, path · **What happens:** be, hasten, grow

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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 (gateway, path), 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:pg976:24:34
# text = It was delightful to behold, as Proserpina hastened along, how the path grew verdant behind and on either side of her.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	delightful	delightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
10	along	along	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	verdant	verdant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
17	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	either	either	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | gateway |  |  |  |  | delightful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hasten** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | along *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **grow** | past | the path |  |  |  |  | behind, verdant *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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