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title: The enchantress took Ulysses by the hand, and made him sit down upon… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The enchantress took Ulysses by the hand, and made him sit down upon this dazzling throne. Who acts: enchantress, Ulysses. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 39

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The enchantress took Ulysses by the hand, and made him sit down upon this dazzling throne.

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**Who acts:** enchantress, Ulysses · **What happens:** take, make, sit down · **To what, where:** Ulysses, dazzling throne

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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 (enchantress, Ulysses), 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:pg976:18:39
# text = The enchantress took Ulysses by the hand, and made him sit down upon this dazzling throne.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	enchantress	enchantress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	down	down	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
16	dazzling	dazzling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the enchantress |  | Ulysses |  |  | by the hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument ulysses=Destination |
| 2 | **make** | past | the enchantress *not said here* | Ulysses |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sit down** | infinitive | Ulysses *not said here* |  |  | this dazzling throne |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon throne=Location |

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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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