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title: In the middle of it was seen a magnificent palace of colored marble,… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In the middle of it was seen a magnificent palace of colored marble, on the balcony of which, every noontide, appeared Cilix, in a long purple robe, and with a jeweled crown upon his head; for the inhabitants, when they found out that he was a king's son, had considered him the fittest of all men to
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 50

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In the middle of it was seen a magnificent palace of colored marble, on the balcony of which, every noontide, appeared Cilix, in a long purple robe, and with a jeweled crown upon his head; for the inhabitants, when they found out that he was a king's son, had considered him the fittest of all men to be a king himself.

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**Who acts:** noontide, inhabitants · **What happens:** see, color, appear, jewel, find out, be · **To what, where:** magnificent palace, middle, Cilix, long purple robe, son, king

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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 (noontide, inhabitants), 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:pg976:11:50
# text = In the middle of it was seen a magnificent palace of colored marble, on the balcony of which, every noontide, appeared Cilix, in a long purple robe, and with a jeweled crown upon his head; for the inhabitants, when they found out that he was a king's son, had considered him the fittest of all men to be a king himself.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	colored	color	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	balcony	balcony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	noontide	noontide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
25	Cilix	Cilix	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	jeweled	jewel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	amod	_	_
37	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
38	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	for	for	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	48	advmod	_	_
47	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
48	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	parataxis	_	_
49	out	out	ADP	RP	_	48	compound:prt	_	_
50	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	56	mark	_	_
51	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
52	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	cop	_	_
53	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	's	's	PART	POS	_	54	case	_	_
56	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
58	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	59	aux	_	_
59	considered	consider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
60	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	obj	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	fittest	fit	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	59	xcomp	_	_
63	of	of	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
64	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	65	det	_	_
65	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	62	obl	_	_
66	to	to	PART	TO	_	69	mark	_	_
67	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	69	cop	_	_
68	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	69	det	_	_
69	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	parataxis	_	_
70	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	69	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past · passive |  | a magnificent palace of colored marble |  | the middle of middle |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: palace=Stimulus |
| 2 | **color** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **appear** | past | every noontide | Cilix |  | a long purple robe |  | of the balcony; with a jeweled crown upon Cilix's head | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cilix=Theme |
| 4 | **jewel** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **find out** | past | inhabitants *= inhabitant* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** | past | noontide | a king's son |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **consider** | past · perfect |  | Cilix |  |  |  | fit *property* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute |
| 8 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | a king |  |  |  | Cilix *nmod:unmarked* | tree rules |

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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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