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title: He told them all his adventures, and how he had left King Agenor in… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He told them all his adventures, and how he had left King Agenor in his palace, and Phoenix at one place, and Cilix at another, and Thasus at a third, and his dear mother, Queen Telephassa, under a flowery sod; so that now he was quite alone, both friendless and homeless. Who acts: herdsman. A sente
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 81

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He told them all his adventures, and how he had left King Agenor in his palace, and Phoenix at one place, and Cilix at another, and Thasus at a third, and his dear mother, Queen Telephassa, under a flowery sod; so that now he was quite alone, both friendless and homeless.

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**Who acts:** herdsman · **What happens:** tell, leave, be, adventure · **To what, where:** adventures, people, King, palace · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (herdsman), 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:pg976:12:81
# text = He told them all his adventures, and how he had left King Agenor in his palace, and Phoenix at one place, and Cilix at another, and Thasus at a third, and his dear mother, Queen Telephassa, under a flowery sod; so that now he was quite alone, both friendless and homeless.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
13	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	Agenor	Agenor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	Phoenix	Phoenix	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	Cilix	Cilix	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	Thasus	Thasus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	third	third	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
38	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	appos	_	_
42	Telephassa	Telephassa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
44	under	under	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	flowery	flowery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	sod	sod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	55	punct	_	_
49	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	55	mark	_	_
50	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	49	fixed	_	_
51	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	49	fixed	_	_
52	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
53	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	55	cop	_	_
54	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
55	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
57	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc:preconj	_	_
58	friendless	friendless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
60	homeless	homeless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | herdsman | herdsman's adventures | people |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient adventure=Topic |
| 2 | **leave** | past · perfect | herdsman | King |  | herdsman's palace |  | at one place; Phoenix *obl* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent king=Theme in palace=Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | herdsman |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **adventure** |  | herdsman |  |  |  |  |  | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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