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title: O, how beautiful it looked, shining with a marvelous light of its ow… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: O, how beautiful it looked, shining with a marvelous light of its own, that inestimable prize which so many heroes had longed to behold, but had perished in the quest of it, either by the perils of their voyage, or by the fiery breath of the brazen-lunged bulls. Who acts: meed, many heroes, heroes. 
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 5, sentence 79

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O, how beautiful it looked, shining with a marvelous light of its own, that inestimable prize which so many heroes had longed to behold, but had perished in the quest of it, either by the perils of their voyage, or by the fiery breath of the brazen-lunged bulls.

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**Who acts:** meed, many heroes, heroes · **What happens:** look, shine, long, perish, lunge, quest · **To what, where:** inestimable prize, quest, voyage

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., 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 (meed, many heroes, heroes), 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:pg976:29:79
# text = O, how beautiful it looked, shining with a marvelous light of its own, that inestimable prize which so many heroes had longed to behold, but had perished in the quest of it, either by the perils of their voyage, or by the fiery breath of the brazen-lunged bulls.
1	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	marvelous	marvelous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
18	inestimable	inestimable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	prize	prize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obj	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
22	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	longed	long	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	acl:relcl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	25	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	perished	perish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	quest	quest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc:preconj	_	_
39	by	by	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	perils	peril	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
46	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
47	by	by	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
53	brazen	brazen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	53	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	lunged	lunge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	56	amod	_	_
56	bulls	bull	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | meed |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **shine** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with a marvelous light of meed's own and that inestimable prize | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with light=Theme |
| 3 | **long** | past · perfect | many heroes | that inestimable prize |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **perish** | past · perfect |  |  |  | the quest of meed |  | by the perils of heroes's voyage or the fiery breath of the lunged bulls | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **lunge** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **quest** |  | meed |  |  |  |  |  | nom quest «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |
| 7 | **peril** |  |  | heroes's voyage |  |  |  |  | nom peril «state transitive»: of=patient |
| 8 | **voyage** |  | heroes *= hero* |  |  |  |  |  | nom voyage «act 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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