--- title: They thought it strange to behold a woman in the garb of a queen (fo… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: They thought it strange to behold a woman in the garb of a queen (for Telephassa in her haste had forgotten to take off her crown and her royal robes), roaming about the country, with four lads around her, on such an errand as this seemed to be. Who acts: people, Telephassa, this. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, Telephassa, this), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg976:10:99 # text = They thought it strange to behold a woman in the garb of a queen (for Telephassa in her haste had forgotten to take off her crown and her royal robes), roaming about the country, with four lads around her, on such an errand as this seemed to be. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 ccomp _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 behold behold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 garb garb NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Telephassa Telephassa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 haste haste NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 forgotten forget VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 14 acl:relcl _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 off off ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 26 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 crown crown NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 30 royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 robes robe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 roaming roam VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 35 about about ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 with with ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 41 nummod _ _ 41 lads lad NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ _ 42 around around ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 45 on on ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 46 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 48 det:predet _ _ 47 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 errand errand NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 49 as as SCONJ IN _ 51 mark _ _ 50 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 51 nsubj _ _ 51 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 48 acl:relcl _ _ 52 to to PART TO _ 53 mark _ _ 53 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 51 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | people | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **behold** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | a woman | | the garb of a queen | | | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus | | 3 | **forget** | past · perfect | Telephassa in Telephassa's haste | a queen *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **take off** | to-infinitive | Telephassa in Telephassa's haste *not said here* | Telephassa's crown | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Theme | | 5 | **roam** | gerund | people *not said here* | | | such errand | | about the country; with four lads around Telephassa | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about country=Trajectory | | 6 | **seem** | past | this | such errand *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **be** | to-infinitive | this *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **crown** | | Telephassa | | | | | | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/10/98/) - next →: [sentence 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/10/100/) - ↑ back to [The Dragon's Teeth., part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/10/)