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title: Whether the light of her beautiful brown eyes threw a glory round ab… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Whether the light of her beautiful brown eyes threw a glory round about her, or whatever the cause might be, Jason fancied that there was something very noble and majestic in her figure, after all, and that, though her gait seemed to be a rheumatic hobble, yet she moved with as much grace and dignit
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 1, sentence 89

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Whether the light of her beautiful brown eyes threw a glory round about her, or whatever the cause might be, Jason fancied that there was something very noble and majestic in her figure, after all, and that, though her gait seemed to be a rheumatic hobble, yet she moved with as much grace and dignity as any queen on earth.

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**Who acts:** light, Jason, gait, blessing · **What happens:** throw, be, fancy, seem, move, light · **To what, where:** glory, whatever, rheumatic hobble, beautiful brown eyes

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (light, Jason, gait, blessing), 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:pg976:25:89
# text = Whether the light of her beautiful brown eyes threw a glory round about her, or whatever the cause might be, Jason fancied that there was something very noble and majestic in her figure, after all, and that, though her gait seemed to be a rheumatic hobble, yet she moved with as much grace and dignity as any queen on earth.
1	Whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
9	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	glory	glory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	round	round	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
13	about	about	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
23	Jason	Jason	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	fancied	fancy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	27	expl	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
28	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	27	nsubj	_	_
29	very	very	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	majestic	majestic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	after	after	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
44	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	gait	gait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
46	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	parataxis	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	51	mark	_	_
48	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	cop	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	rheumatic	rheumatic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	hobble	hobble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
53	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
54	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
55	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
56	with	with	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
57	as	as	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	grace	grace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	_
60	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
61	dignity	dignity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	conj	_	_
62	as	as	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
63	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	64	det	_	_
64	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	_
65	on	on	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
66	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | past | the light of light's beautiful brown eyes | a glory |  |  |  | about blessing; round *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent glory=Theme about she=Destination |
| 2 | **is a** | infinitive | the light of light's beautiful brown eyes *not said here* | whatever |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fancy** | past | Jason |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **seem** | past | blessing's gait |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | to-infinitive | blessing's gait *not said here* | a rheumatic hobble |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **move** | past | gait |  |  |  |  | with much grace and dignity; as any queen on earth | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **light** |  |  | light's beautiful brown eyes |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
| 8 | **figure** |  | blessing |  |  |  |  |  | nom figure «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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