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title: For it appeared as if the air was full of a melancholy wail; and whe… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: For it appeared as if the air was full of a melancholy wail; and when he listened more attentively, he could hear sobs, and groans, and screams of woe, mingled with deep, quiet sighs, which came from the king's palace, and from the streets, and from the temples, and from every habitation in the city
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 2, sentence 81

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For it appeared as if the air was full of a melancholy wail; and when he listened more attentively, he could hear sobs, and groans, and screams of woe, mingled with deep, quiet sighs, which came from the king's palace, and from the streets, and from the temples, and from every habitation in the city.

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**Who acts:** it, air, Theseus, deep quiet sighs, woe · **What happens:** appear, be, listen, hear, groan, mingle · **To what, where:** habitation, sobs, screams, streets, palace

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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 (it, air, Theseus, deep quiet sighs), 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:pg976:4:81
# text = For it appeared as if the air was full of a melancholy wail; and when he listened more attentively, he could hear sobs, and groans, and screams of woe, mingled with deep, quiet sighs, which came from the king's palace, and from the streets, and from the temples, and from every habitation in the city.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	wail	wail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
19	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
20	attentively	attentively	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
25	sobs	sob	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	groans	groan	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	screams	scream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	woe	woe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	mingled	mingle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
37	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
39	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	sighs	sigh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	43	nsubj	_	_
43	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	acl:relcl	_	_
44	from	from	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	's	's	PART	POS	_	46	case	_	_
48	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
51	from	from	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
56	from	from	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	temples	temple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
60	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	63	cc	_	_
61	from	from	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
62	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	63	det	_	_
63	habitation	habitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
64	in	in	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
65	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	66	det	_	_
66	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past | it |  |  | every habitation in the city |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the air |  |  |  |  | of a melancholy wail; full *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **listen** | past | Theseus |  |  |  |  | attentively *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hear** | could | Theseus | sobs |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sob=Stimulus |
| 5 | **groan** | present |  | screams of woe |  | the streets |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent scream=Theme |
| 6 | **mingle** | participle |  | screams of woe *not said here* |  |  |  | with deep quiet sighs | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with sigh=Co-Patient |
| 7 | **come** | past | deep quiet sighs |  |  | the king's palace |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from palace=Initial\_Location |
| 8 | **scream** |  | woe |  |  |  |  |  | nom scream «communication intransitive»: of=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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