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title: Pluto now summoned his domestics, and bade them lose no time in prep… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Pluto now summoned his domestics, and bade them lose no time in preparing a most sumptuous banquet, and above all things, not to fail of setting a golden beaker of the water of Lethe by Proserpina's plate. Who acts: Pluto, time. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranat
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 33

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Pluto now summoned his domestics, and bade them lose no time in preparing a most sumptuous banquet, and above all things, not to fail of setting a golden beaker of the water of Lethe by Proserpina's plate.

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**Who acts:** Pluto, time · **What happens:** summon, lose, prepare, not fail, set · **To what, where:** domestics, bade, sumptuous banquet, things, golden beaker

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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, time), 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:pg976:21:33
# text = Pluto now summoned his domestics, and bade them lose no time in preparing a most sumptuous banquet, and above all things, not to fail of setting a golden beaker of the water of Lethe by Proserpina's plate.
1	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	summoned	summon	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	domestics	domestic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	lose	lose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	preparing	prepare	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	17	advmod	_	_
17	sumptuous	sumptuous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	banquet	banquet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
21	above	above	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	fail	fail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
28	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	setting	set	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	beaker	beaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Lethe	Lethe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
38	by	by	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	's	's	PART	POS	_	39	case	_	_
41	plate	plate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **summon** | past | Pluto | Proserpina's domestics |  |  | now |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent domestic=Recipient |
| 2 | **lose** | present |  | bade |  |  | time |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **prepare** | gerund | no time *not said here* | a sumptuous banquet |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent banquet=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **fail** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | all things |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **set** | gerund |  | a golden beaker of the water of Lethe |  |  |  | by Proserpina's plate | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent beaker=Theme by plate=Destination |

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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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