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title: But Aethra sighed, and looked disquieted; for, no doubt, she began t… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But Aethra sighed, and looked disquieted; for, no doubt, she began to be conscious that her son was no longer a child, and that, in a little while hence, she must send him forth among the perils and troubles of the world. Who acts: Aethra, son. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 1, sentence 40

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But Aethra sighed, and looked disquieted; for, no doubt, she began to be conscious that her son was no longer a child, and that, in a little while hence, she must send him forth among the perils and troubles of the world.

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**Who acts:** Aethra, son · **What happens:** sigh, disquiet, begin, be, send, trouble · **To what, where:** child, son, world

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., 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 (Aethra, son), 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:pg976:3:40
# text = But Aethra sighed, and looked disquieted; for, no doubt, she began to be conscious that her son was no longer a child, and that, in a little while hence, she must send him forth among the perils and troubles of the world.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Aethra	Aethra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sighed	sigh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	disquieted	disquiet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
18	conscious	conscious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
23	no	no	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	26	advmod	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
34	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
35	hence	hence	ADV	RB	_	33	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
40	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	_
41	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
42	among	among	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	perils	peril	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	troubles	trouble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	conj	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sigh** | past | Aethra |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **disquiet** | past · passive | Aethra *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 3 | **begin** | past | Aethra |  |  |  |  | for no doubt | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **is** | to-infinitive | Aethra *not said here* |  |  |  |  | conscious *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | past | Aethra's son | a child |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **send** | must | Aethra | son |  |  |  | among the perils and troubles of the world; forth *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 7 | **trouble** |  |  | the world |  |  |  |  | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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