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title: Instead of two and twenty thrones, which had before been ranged arou… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Instead of two and twenty thrones, which had before been ranged around the wall, there was now only a single throne, in the center of the apartment. Who acts: single throne. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 37

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Instead of two and twenty thrones, which had before been ranged around the wall, there was now only a single throne, in the center of the apartment.

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**Who acts:** single throne · **What happens:** range, be · **To what, where:** two thrones, wall

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., 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 (single throne), 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:pg976:18:37
# text = Instead of two and twenty thrones, which had before been ranged around the wall, there was now only a single throne, in the center of the apartment.
1	Instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	6	case	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	_
6	thrones	throne	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	before	before	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	ranged	range	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
13	around	around	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
18	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
20	only	only	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	center	center	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	apartment	apartment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **range** | past · perfect · passive |  | two thrones |  | the wall |  | before *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | past | a single throne and the center of the apartment |  |  | there |  | instead two thrones | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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