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title: Any other mortal, beholding their fresh and tender beauty, and their… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Any other mortal, beholding their fresh and tender beauty, and their innocent looks, would have felt himself sitting on thorns until he had made every soul of them happy by bidding them go free as the summer wind. Who acts: other mortal, mortal. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorn
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 3, sentence 60

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Any other mortal, beholding their fresh and tender beauty, and their innocent looks, would have felt himself sitting on thorns until he had made every soul of them happy by bidding them go free as the summer wind.

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**Who acts:** other mortal, mortal · **What happens:** behold, feel, sit, make, bid, go · **To what, where:** fresh beauty, mortal, thorns, soul, beauty

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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 (other mortal, mortal), 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:pg976:5:60
# text = Any other mortal, beholding their fresh and tender beauty, and their innocent looks, would have felt himself sitting on thorns until he had made every soul of them happy by bidding them go free as the summer wind.
1	Any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	mortal	mortal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	beholding	behold	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
7	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	tender	tender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	innocent	innocent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	looks	look	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux	_	_
19	felt	feel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
20	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	19	obj	_	_
21	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	advcl	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	thorns	thorn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
24	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
28	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	det	_	_
29	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nmod	_	_
32	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	_
33	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
34	bidding	bid	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
37	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	xcomp	_	_
38	as	as	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **behold** | gerund | any other mortal *not said here* | victims's fresh beauty and victims's innocent looks |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beauty=Stimulus |
| 2 | **feel** | would · perfect | any other mortal | mortal |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
| 3 | **sit** | gerund | any other mortal *not said here* |  |  | thorns |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on thorn=Location |
| 4 | **make** | past · perfect | mortal | every soul of victims |  |  |  | happy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Product |
| 5 | **bid** | gerund | mortal *not said here* | beauty |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **go** | infinitive | mortal *not said here* |  |  |  |  | free *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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