--- title: King Ulysses took the goblet with his right hand, while with his lef… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: King Ulysses took the goblet with his right hand, while with his left he held the snow-white flower to his nostrils, and drew in so long a breath that his lungs were quite filled with its pure and simple fragrance. Who acts: 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 (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:pg976:18:55 # text = King Ulysses took the goblet with his right hand, while with his left he held the snow-white flower to his nostrils, and drew in so long a breath that his lungs were quite filled with its pure and simple fragrance. 1 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Ulysses Ulysses PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 goblet goblet NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 while while SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 left left NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 18 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 nostrils nostril NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 29 so so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 long long ADJ RB Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 breath breath NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 33 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 38 obj _ _ 34 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 lungs lung NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj:pass _ _ 36 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux:pass _ _ 37 quite quite ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 filled fill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 acl:relcl _ _ 39 with with ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 40 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 41 pure pure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 simple simple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 conj _ _ 44 fragrance fragrance NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | King | the goblet | | | | with King's right hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goblet=Theme | | 2 | **hold** | past | King | the white flower | | | | with King's left; to King's nostrils | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme | | 3 | **draw** | past | King *not said here* | | | a long breath | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in breath=Destination | | 4 | **fill** | past · passive | | King's lungs | | | | with goblet's pure fragrance | tree rules | 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 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/18/54/) - next →: [sentence 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/18/56/) - ↑ back to [Circe's Palace., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/18/)