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title: Pluto stopped the chariot, and bade Proserpina look at the stream wh… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Pluto stopped the chariot, and bade Proserpina look at the stream which was gliding so lazily beneath it. Who acts: Pluto, bade, stream. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 11

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Pluto stopped the chariot, and bade Proserpina look at the stream which was gliding so lazily beneath it.

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**Who acts:** Pluto, bade, stream · **What happens:** stop, look, glide · **To what, where:** chariot, bade

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pluto, bade, stream), 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:pg976:21:11
# text = Pluto stopped the chariot, and bade Proserpina look at the stream which was gliding so lazily beneath it.
1	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
9	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	gliding	glide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	lazily	lazily	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
18	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | past | Pluto | the chariot |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector chariot=Eventuality |
| 2 | **look** | present | bade |  |  |  |  | at the stream | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at stream=Theme |
| 3 | **glide** | past · progressive | the stream |  |  | bade |  | lazily *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath it=Trajectory |

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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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