--- title: And the new king, with his five faithful followers at his heels, sho… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And the new king, with his five faithful followers at his heels, shouldering their pickaxes and marching in a rank (for they still had a soldier-like sort of behavior, as their nature was), ascended the palace steps. Who acts: new king, king. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (new king, king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg976:13:87 # text = And the new king, with his five faithful followers at his heels, shouldering their pickaxes and marching in a rank (for they still had a soldier-like sort of behavior, as their nature was), ascended the palace steps. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 8 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 9 faithful faithful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 followers follower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 heels heel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 shouldering shoulder VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 16 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 pickaxes pickax NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 marching march VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 conj _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 rank rank NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 for for SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 still still ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 29 soldier soldier NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 like like ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 sort sort NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 behavior behavior NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 36 as as SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 37 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 nature nature NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj:pass _ _ 39 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 42 ascended ascend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 conj _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 compound _ _ 45 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shoulder** | gerund | the new king and Cadmus's five faithful followers at Cadmus's heels | king's pickaxes | | | | | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pickax=Theme | | 2 | **march** | gerund | the new king and Cadmus's five faithful followers at Cadmus's heels *not said here* | | | a rank | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in rank=Trajectory | | 3 | **have** | past | king | a like sort of behavior | | | still | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Patient | | 4 | **ascend** | participle · passive | | king's nature | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **sort** | | | behavior | | | | | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/13/86/) - next →: [sentence 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/13/88/) - ↑ back to [The Dragon's Teeth., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/13/)