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title: What was still more remarkable, whenever the sun shone on this huge… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: What was still more remarkable, whenever the sun shone on this huge figure, it flickered and glimmered; its vast countenance, too, had a metallic lustre, and threw great flashes of splendor through the air. Who acts: sun, splendor. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotau
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 28

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What was still more remarkable, whenever the sun shone on this huge figure, it flickered and glimmered; its vast countenance, too, had a metallic lustre, and threw great flashes of splendor through the air.

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**Who acts:** sun, splendor · **What happens:** be, shine, flicker, glimmer, have, throw · **To what, where:** sun, huge figure, metallic lustre, great flashes, air

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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 (sun, splendor), 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:pg976:5:28
# text = What was still more remarkable, whenever the sun shone on this huge figure, it flickered and glimmered; its vast countenance, too, had a metallic lustre, and threw great flashes of splendor through the air.
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	still	still	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
5	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
7	whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
10	shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
13	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	flickered	flicker	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	glimmered	glimmer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	countenance	countenance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	too	too	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	metallic	metallic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	lustre	lustre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	parataxis	_	_
34	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	flashes	flash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	splendor	splendor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
38	through	through	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  | still | remarkable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **shine** | participle |  | the sun *not said here* |  | this huge figure |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on figure=Location |
| 3 | **flicker** | past | the sun |  |  |  |  | whenever *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **glimmer** | past | the sun *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | past |  | a metallic lustre |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lustre=Patient |
| 6 | **throw** | past |  | great flashes of splendor |  | the air |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent flash=Theme through air=Destination |
| 7 | **flash** |  | splendor |  |  |  |  |  | nom flash «event 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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