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title: When the husbandmen, at whose farmhouses they sought hospitality, ne… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When the husbandmen, at whose farmhouses they sought hospitality, needed their assistance in the harvest field, they gave it willingly; and Queen Telephassa (who had done no work in her palace, save to braid silk threads with golden ones) came behind them to bind the sheaves. Who acts: farmhouses, h
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 110

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When the husbandmen, at whose farmhouses they sought hospitality, needed their assistance in the harvest field, they gave it willingly; and Queen Telephassa (who had done no work in her palace, save to braid silk threads with golden ones) came behind them to bind the sheaves.

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**Who acts:** farmhouses, hospitality, Telephassa, silk threads · **What happens:** seek, need, give, do, save, braid · **To what, where:** farmhouses, assistance, harvest field, work, palace, sheaves

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (farmhouses, hospitality, Telephassa, silk threads), 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:pg976:10:110
# text = When the husbandmen, at whose farmhouses they sought hospitality, needed their assistance in the harvest field, they gave it willingly; and Queen Telephassa (who had done no work in her palace, save to braid silk threads with golden ones) came behind them to bind the sheaves.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	husbandmen	husbandman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	farmhouses	farmhouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	hospitality	hospitality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	assistance	assistance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	harvest	harvest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	willingly	willingly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
26	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:desc	_	_
27	Telephassa	Telephassa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
28	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	acl	_	_
32	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	33	det	_	_
33	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	braid	braid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	xcomp	_	_
41	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	threads	thread	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nsubj	_	_
43	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	45	punct	_	_
47	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	ccomp	_	_
48	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obl	_	_
50	to	to	PART	TO	_	51	mark	_	_
51	bind	bind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	advcl	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	sheaves	sheaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | past | farmhouses *= farmhouse* | the husbandmen and the husbandmen and farmhouses's farmhouses's farmhouses *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farmhouse=Theme |
| 2 | **need** | past | the husbandmen and the husbandmen and farmhouses's farmhouses's hospitality | farmhouses's assistance |  | the harvest field |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot assistance=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | past | farmhouses *= farmhouse* | assistance |  |  |  | willingly *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **do** | past · perfect | Telephassa  Queen | no work |  | Telephassa's palace |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality |
| 5 | **save** | infinitive | Telephassa  Queen |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **braid** | to-infinitive | Telephassa  Queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **come** | past | silk threads with golden ones |  |  |  |  | behind farmhouses *= farmhouse* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind they=Location |
| 8 | **bind** | to-infinitive | silk threads with golden ones *not said here* | the sheaves |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheaf=Patient |
| 9 | **assist** |  | farmhouses *= farmhouse* |  |  |  |  |  | nom assistance «act transitive»: poss=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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