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title: He planted some flowers on his mother's grave, and left them to grow… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He planted some flowers on his mother's grave, and left them to grow there, and make the place beautiful, when he should be far away. Who acts: smile. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 2

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He planted some flowers on his mother's grave, and left them to grow there, and make the place beautiful, when he should be far away.

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**Who acts:** smile · **What happens:** plant, leave, grow, make, be · **To what, where:** flowers, grave, place

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smile), 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:pg976:12:2
# text = He planted some flowers on his mother's grave, and left them to grow there, and make the place beautiful, when he should be far away.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	planted	plant	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
16	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	29	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
26	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	cop	_	_
28	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	_
29	away	away	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plant** | past | smile | some flowers |  | smile's mother's grave |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flower=Theme on grave=Destination |
| 2 | **leave** | past | smile *not said here* | flowers *= flower* |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | to-infinitive | smile *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | infinitive | smile *not said here* | the place |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset place=Product |
| 5 | **is** | should | smile |  |  |  |  | away, far *property* | 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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