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title: But King Ulysses frowned sternly on them, and shook his spear, and b… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But King Ulysses frowned sternly on them, and shook his spear, and bade them stop him at their peril. Who acts: King, bade, followers. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 3, sentence 74

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But King Ulysses frowned sternly on them, and shook his spear, and bade them stop him at their peril.

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**Who acts:** King, bade, followers · **What happens:** frown, shake, stop, peril · **To what, where:** spear, Eurylochus, peril

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., 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 (King, bade, followers), 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:pg976:17:74
# text = But King Ulysses frowned sternly on them, and shook his spear, and bade them stop him at their peril.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	frowned	frown	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	sternly	sternly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	peril	peril	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **frown** | past | King |  |  |  |  | on followers *= follower*; sternly *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **shake** | past | King *not said here* | Eurylochus's spear |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent spear=Patient |
| 3 | **stop** | present | bade | Eurylochus |  | followers's peril |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality he=Eventuality |
| 4 | **peril** |  | followers *= follower* |  |  |  |  |  | nom peril «state 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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