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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 72

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So here, in the course of a few years, was another thriving city, with a red freestone palace in the center of it, where Thasus sat upon a throne, doing justice to the people, with a purple robe over his shoulders, a sceptre in his hand, and a crown upon his head.

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**Who acts:** Thasus · **What happens:** thrive, be, sit, do · **To what, where:** thriving city, throne, justice

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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 (Thasus), 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:pg976:11:72
# text = So here, in the course of a few years, was another thriving city, with a red freestone palace in the center of it, where Thasus sat upon a throne, doing justice to the people, with a purple robe over his shoulders, a sceptre in his hand, and a crown upon his head.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
14	thriving	thrive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	amod	_	_
15	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	freestone	freestone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	center	center	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	30	advmod	_	_
29	Thasus	Thasus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
31	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
36	justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	with	with	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
45	over	over	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	sceptre	sceptre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	conj	_	_
51	in	in	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
56	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
58	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	60	nmod:poss	_	_
60	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thrive** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | another thriving city and a crown upon city's head |  | here |  | with a red freestone palace in the center of center | tree rules |
| 3 | **sit** | past | Thasus |  |  | a throne |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon throne=Location |
| 4 | **do** | gerund | Thasus *not said here* | justice |  |  |  | to the people; with a purple robe over city's shoulders and a sceptre in city's hand | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent justice=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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