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title: We must now leave King Agenor to sit on his throne, and must go alon… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: We must now leave King Agenor to sit on his throne, and must go along with Queen Telephassa, and her four youthful companions. Who acts: We. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 1, sentence 95

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We must now leave King Agenor to sit on his throne, and must go along with Queen Telephassa, and her four youthful companions.

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**Who acts:** We · **What happens:** leave, sit, go along · **To what, where:** King, four youthful companions, throne

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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 (We), 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:pg976:10:95
# text = We must now leave King Agenor to sit on his throne, and must go along with Queen Telephassa, and her four youthful companions.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	Agenor	Agenor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
16	along	along	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	Telephassa	Telephassa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
23	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
24	youthful	youthful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | must | We | King |  |  | now |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme |
| 2 | **sit** | to-infinitive | We *not said here* | queen's four youthful companions |  | king's throne |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on throne=Location |
| 3 | **go along** | must | We *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Queen; along *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with queen=Beneficiary |

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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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