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title: The tears both of joy and sorrow sprang into the young man's eyes; f… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The tears both of joy and sorrow sprang into the young man's eyes; for he thought how sad it was to see his dear father so infirm, and how sweet it would be to support him with his own youthful strength, and to cheer him up with the alacrity of his loving spirit. Who acts: tears, man, aspect. A sent
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 16

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The tears both of joy and sorrow sprang into the young man's eyes; for he thought how sad it was to see his dear father so infirm, and how sweet it would be to support him with his own youthful strength, and to cheer him up with the alacrity of his loving spirit.

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**Who acts:** tears, man, aspect · **What happens:** spring, think, see, infirm, be, cheer up · **To what, where:** eyes, dear father, man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tears, man, aspect), 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:pg976:4:16
# text = The tears both of joy and sorrow sprang into the young man's eyes; for he thought how sad it was to see his dear father so infirm, and how sweet it would be to support him with his own youthful strength, and to cheer him up with the alacrity of his loving spirit.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
19	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
20	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	infirm	infirm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	33	advmod	_	_
33	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	ccomp	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
35	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
36	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	cop	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	support	support	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	ccomp	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	with	with	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
42	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
43	youthful	youthful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	cheer	cheer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
49	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	obj	_	_
50	up	up	ADP	RP	_	48	compound:prt	_	_
51	with	with	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	alacrity	alacrity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
55	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	57	nmod:poss	_	_
56	loving	loving	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spring** | past | the tears |  |  | the young man's eyes |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into eye=Destination |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | man |  |  |  |  | sad *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | past | aspect | man's dear father |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus |
| 4 | **infirm** | infinitive | aspect *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | would | aspect |  |  |  |  | with man's own youthful strength; support *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **cheer up** | to-infinitive |  | man |  |  |  | with the alacrity of man's loving spirit | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with alacrity=Instrument |

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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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