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title: There is some comfort in making him so happy; and so, upon the whole… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There is some comfort in making him so happy; and so, upon the whole, dearest mother, let us be thankful that he is not to keep me the whole year round." Who acts: comfort, whole dearest mother, us. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, with its dep
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 5, sentence 66

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There is some comfort in making him so happy; and so, upon the whole, dearest mother, let us be thankful that he is not to keep me the whole year round."

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**Who acts:** comfort, whole dearest mother, us · **What happens:** be, make, let, not be · **To what, where:** comfort, us

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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 (comfort, whole dearest mother, us), 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:pg976:24:66
# text = There is some comfort in making him so happy; and so, upon the whole, dearest mother, let us be thankful that he is not to keep me the whole year round."
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	comfort	comfort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	dearest	dear	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
19	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
22	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
24	thankful	thankful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
31	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl:unmarked	_	_
35	round	round	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | some comfort |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | gerund | some comfort *not said here* | comfort |  |  |  | happy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | the whole dearest mother | us |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  | thankful *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **is** | present | comfort |  |  |  | year | keep, round *property* | tree rules |

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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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