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title: It is my opinion that even King Pluto had never been happy in his pa… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It is my opinion that even King Pluto had never been happy in his palace, and that this was the true reason why he had stolen away Proserpina, in order that he might have something to love, instead of cheating his heart any longer with this tiresome magnificence. Who acts: fall, that, this, King. A 
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 31

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It is my opinion that even King Pluto had never been happy in his palace, and that this was the true reason why he had stolen away Proserpina, in order that he might have something to love, instead of cheating his heart any longer with this tiresome magnificence.

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**Who acts:** fall, that, this, King · **What happens:** be, not be, steal away, have, love, cheat · **To what, where:** opinion, palace, true reason, Proserpina, order, something

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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 (fall, that, this, King), 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:pg976:21:31
# text = It is my opinion that even King Pluto had never been happy in his palace, and that this was the true reason why he had stolen away Proserpina, in order that he might have something to love, instead of cheating his heart any longer with this tiresome magnificence.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
6	even	even	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:desc	_	_
8	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
11	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	cop	_	_
12	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
24	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	stolen	steal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	acl	_	_
28	away	away	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
33	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	acl	_	_
37	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	36	obj	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	love	love	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	43	mark	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	fixed	_	_
43	cheating	cheat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	39	conj	_	_
44	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
46	any	any	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	43	advmod	_	_
48	with	with	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	51	det	_	_
50	tiresome	tiresome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	magnificence	magnificence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | fall | my opinion and the true reason |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past · perfect | that |  |  | King's palace |  | happy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | this | the true reason |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **steal away** | past · perfect | King | Proserpina |  | order |  | away *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in order=Location |
| 5 | **have** | might | King | something |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient |
| 6 | **love** | to-infinitive | King *not said here* | something *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **cheat** | gerund | King *not said here* | Proserpina's heart |  |  |  | with this tiresome magnificence; long *property* | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Source |

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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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