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title: It appears that the fountain of water was enchanted, and that the dr… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It appears that the fountain of water was enchanted, and that the dragon had been set to guard it, so that no mortal might ever quench his thirst there. Who acts: It, mortal. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4, sentence 11

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It appears that the fountain of water was enchanted, and that the dragon had been set to guard it, so that no mortal might ever quench his thirst there.

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**Who acts:** It, mortal · **What happens:** appear, enchant, set, guard, quench, thirst · **To what, where:** fountain, dragon, thirst

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, mortal), 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:pg976:13:11
# text = It appears that the fountain of water was enchanted, and that the dragon had been set to guard it, so that no mortal might ever quench his thirst there.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	appears	appear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	enchanted	enchant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	guard	guard	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	28	mark	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	fixed	_	_
24	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	25	det	_	_
25	mortal	mortal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
26	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	28	advmod	_	_
28	quench	quench	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	thirst	thirst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | present | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **enchant** | past · passive |  | the fountain of water |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 3 | **set** | past · perfect · passive |  | the dragon |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
| 4 | **guard** | to-infinitive |  | dragon |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **quench** | might | no mortal | mortal's thirst |  | there | ever |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thirst=Experiencer |
| 6 | **thirst** |  | mortal |  |  |  |  |  | nom thirst «state intransitive»: 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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