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title: By way of showing her gratitude, the child besought them to go with… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: By way of showing her gratitude, the child besought them to go with her a little way into the fields, so that they might gather abundance of flowers, with which she would make each of her kind playmates a wreath. Who acts: way, child, dragons. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne,
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1, sentence 13

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By way of showing her gratitude, the child besought them to go with her a little way into the fields, so that they might gather abundance of flowers, with which she would make each of her kind playmates a wreath.

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**Who acts:** way, child, dragons · **What happens:** show, beseech, go, gather, make · **To what, where:** gratitude, dragons, little way, fields, abundance, each

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, child, dragons), 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:pg976:20:13
# text = By way of showing her gratitude, the child besought them to go with her a little way into the fields, so that they might gather abundance of flowers, with which she would make each of her kind playmates a wreath.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
3	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	showing	show	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	besought	beseech	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	27	mark	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	fixed	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	gather	gather	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
28	abundance	abundance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	obl	_	_
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
37	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	36	obj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
40	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	playmates	playmate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	wreath	wreath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | gerund | way *not said here* | Proserpina's gratitude |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent gratitude=Recipient |
| 2 | **beseech** | past | the child | dragons *= dragon* |  |  |  | by way | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | to-infinitive | the child *not said here* | a little way |  | the fields |  | with Proserpina | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into field=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **gather** | might | dragons *= dragon* | abundance of flowers |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent abundance=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | would | child | each |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Product |

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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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