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title: But, when thou hast laid thy mother in the earth, then go, my son, t… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But, when thou hast laid thy mother in the earth, then go, my son, to Delphi, and inquire of the oracle what thou shalt do next." Who acts: you, thou. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 107

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But, when thou hast laid thy mother in the earth, then go, my son, to Delphi, and inquire of the oracle what thou shalt do next."

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**Who acts:** you, thou · **What happens:** lay, go, inquire, do · **To what, where:** thou, earth, Delphi, oracle

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, thou), 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:pg976:11:107
# text = But, when thou hast laid thy mother in the earth, then go, my son, to Delphi, and inquire of the oracle what thou shalt do next."
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
4	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nsubj	_	_
5	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
7	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	mother	mother	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	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Delphi	Delphi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	inquire	inquire	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	oracle	oracle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	30	obj	_	_
28	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	30	nsubj	_	_
29	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	acl:relcl	_	_
31	next	next	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | present · passive |  | thou |  | the earth |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme mother=Destination |
| 2 | **go** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | Delphi | then | my son *vocative* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to delphi=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **inquire** *speech: other* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the oracle | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of oracle=Recipient |
| 4 | **do** | shall | thou | the oracle |  |  |  | next *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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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