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title: She was one of those persons whose eyes are full of mystery; so that… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She was one of those persons whose eyes are full of mystery; so that, while looking into them, you seem to see a very great way, as into a deep well, yet can never be certain whether you see into the farthest depths, or whether there be not something else hidden at the bottom. Who acts: woman, eyes,
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 39

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She was one of those persons whose eyes are full of mystery; so that, while looking into them, you seem to see a very great way, as into a deep well, yet can never be certain whether you see into the farthest depths, or whether there be not something else hidden at the bottom.

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**Who acts:** woman, eyes, you · **What happens:** be, look, seem, see, not be, hide · **To what, where:** one, great way, farthest depths, something, bottom

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., 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 (woman, eyes, you), 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:pg976:28:39
# text = She was one of those persons whose eyes are full of mystery; so that, while looking into them, you seem to see a very great way, as into a deep well, yet can never be certain whether you see into the farthest depths, or whether there be not something else hidden at the bottom.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|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	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	mystery	mystery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
14	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	3	conj	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
17	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	very	very	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	as	as	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	into	into	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
38	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
39	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
40	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	cop	_	_
41	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
42	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
43	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	advcl	_	_
45	into	into	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	farthest	far	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	48	amod	_	_
48	depths	depth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
50	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
51	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
52	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	44	advmod	_	_
53	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	cop	_	_
54	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	55	advmod	_	_
55	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	52	conj	_	_
56	else	else	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
57	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	55	acl	_	_
58	at	at	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | woman | one |  |  |  | of that persons | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | eyes |  |  |  |  | of mystery; full *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into eyes *= eye* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into they=Theme |
| 4 | **seem** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 5 | **see** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a great way |  |  |  | as a deep well | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus as well=Attribute |
| 6 | **not** **is** | can | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | certain *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **see** | present | you |  |  | the farthest depths; there |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **not** **is a** | infinitive | you *not said here* | something |  |  |  | else *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **hide** | participle |  |  |  | the bottom |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at bottom=Location |

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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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