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title: But by and by, all over the field, there was something that glistene… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But by and by, all over the field, there was something that glistened in the moonbeams, like sparkling drops of dew. Who acts: something. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 97

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But by and by, all over the field, there was something that glistened in the moonbeams, like sparkling drops of dew.

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**Who acts:** something · **What happens:** be, glisten, sparkle · **To what, where:** moonbeams, drops

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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 (something), 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:pg976:28:97
# text = But by and by, all over the field, there was something that glistened in the moonbeams, like sparkling drops of dew.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	all	all	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	12	nsubj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	glistened	glisten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	moonbeams	moonbeam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	sparkling	sparkle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
22	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	dew	dew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | something |  |  | there |  | by the field | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by field=Location |
| 2 | **glisten** | past |  |  |  | the moonbeams |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in moonbeam=Location |
| 3 | **sparkle** | gerund |  | drops of dew |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent drop=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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