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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 2, sentence 77

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To his latest hour, nevertheless, King Thasus showed his true-hearted remembrance of Europa, by ordering that a fire should always be kept burning in his palace, and a bath steaming hot, and food ready to be served up, and a bed with snow-white sheets, in case the maiden should arrive, and require immediate refreshment.

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**Who acts:** King, fire, bath, maiden · **What happens:** show, order, keep, burn, steam, serve up · **To what, where:** true hearted remembrance, fire, palace, bath, case, immediate refreshment

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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 (King, fire, bath, maiden), 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:pg976:11:77
# text = To his latest hour, nevertheless, King Thasus showed his true-hearted remembrance of Europa, by ordering that a fire should always be kept burning in his palace, and a bath steaming hot, and food ready to be served up, and a bed with snow-white sheets, in case the maiden should arrive, and require immediate refreshment.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	latest	late	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	Thasus	Thasus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
12	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	hearted	hearted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	remembrance	remembrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Europa	Europa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	ordering	order	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
25	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	27	advmod	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	advcl	_	_
28	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	xcomp	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	steaming	steam	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	35	acl	_	_
37	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
40	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj:pass	_	_
41	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	nsubj:pass	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
43	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	aux:pass	_	_
44	served	serve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
45	up	up	ADP	RP	_	44	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
50	with	with	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
51	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	sheets	sheet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
56	in	in	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	nsubj	_	_
60	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	61	aux	_	_
61	arrive	arrive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	57	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
63	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
64	require	require	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
65	immediate	immediate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	66	amod	_	_
66	refreshment	refreshment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | past | King | king's true hearted remembrance of Europa |  |  | hour | a bed with snow white sheets *obl*; nevertheless *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent remembrance=Recipient |
| 2 | **order** | gerund | King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **keep** | should · passive |  | a fire |  |  |  | always *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **burn** | gerund | a fire *not said here* |  |  | king's palace |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location |
| 5 | **steam** | gerund | a bath *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **serve up** | to-infinitive · passive |  | a bath |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |
| 7 | **arrive** | should | the maiden | case *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **require** | present |  | immediate refreshment |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme refreshment=Precondition |
| 9 | **remember** |  | king | Europa |  |  |  |  | nom remembrance «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

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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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