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title: Immediately the moon shone out as brightly as if all the troubles of… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Immediately the moon shone out as brightly as if all the troubles of the world, and all the wickedness and the ugliness that infest human life, were past and gone forever. Who acts: moon, ugliness, wickedness. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 4, with its d
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur., part 4, sentence 51

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Immediately the moon shone out as brightly as if all the troubles of the world, and all the wickedness and the ugliness that infest human life, were past and gone forever.

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**Who acts:** moon, ugliness, wickedness · **What happens:** shine out, infest, be, trouble · **To what, where:** human life, world

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon, ugliness, wickedness), 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:pg976:6:51
# text = Immediately the moon shone out as brightly as if all the troubles of the world, and all the wickedness and the ugliness that infest human life, were past and gone forever.
1	Immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	as	as	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	brightly	brightly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	troubles	trouble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
18	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	20	det:predet	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	wickedness	wickedness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	ugliness	ugliness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	infest	infest	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	past	past	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	_
33	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shine out** | participle | the moon |  |  |  |  | as all troubles of the world; brightly, immediately *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **infest** | present | the ugliness | human life |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme life=Destination |
| 3 | **is** | past | all wickedness and the ugliness |  |  |  |  | past *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | all wickedness and the ugliness *not said here* |  |  |  |  | forever *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **trouble** |  |  | the world |  |  |  |  | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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