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title: Then she led Theseus along by the hand until they came to a dark, sh… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she led Theseus along by the hand until they came to a dark, shadowy grove, where the moonlight wasted itself on the tops of the trees, without shedding hardly so much as a glimmering beam upon their pathway. Who acts: Heaven, guards, moonlight. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Haw
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 101

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Then she led Theseus along by the hand until they came to a dark, shadowy grove, where the moonlight wasted itself on the tops of the trees, without shedding hardly so much as a glimmering beam upon their pathway.

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**Who acts:** Heaven, guards, moonlight · **What happens:** lead, come, waste, shed · **To what, where:** Theseus, dark shadowy grove, moonlight, tops, much

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Heaven, guards, moonlight), 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:pg976:5:101
# text = Then she led Theseus along by the hand until they came to a dark, shadowy grove, where the moonlight wasted itself on the tops of the trees, without shedding hardly so much as a glimmering beam upon their pathway.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Theseus	Theseus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	along	along	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	shadowy	shadowy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	grove	grove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	22	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	wasted	waste	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
23	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	22	obj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	tops	top	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
32	shedding	shed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
33	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
34	so	so	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	obj	_	_
36	as	as	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	glimmering	glimmering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	beam	beam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
40	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	pathway	pathway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past | Heaven | Theseus |  |  | then | by the hand; along *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent theseus=Theme by hand=Destination |
| 2 | **come** | past | guards *= guard* |  |  | a dark shadowy grove |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to grove=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **waste** | past | the moonlight | moonlight |  |  |  | on the tops of the trees *goal* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent itself=Asset on top=Goal |
| 4 | **shed** | gerund | the moonlight *not said here* | much |  |  |  | as a glimmering beam; upon guards's pathway | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location much=Source |

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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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