--- title: "I should be sorry for that," replied King Pluto, patting her cheek;… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: "I should be sorry for that," replied King Pluto, patting her cheek; for he really wished to be kind, if he had only known how. " Who acts: Pluto, King. 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" **Who acts:** Pluto, King · **What happens:** be, reply, pat, wish, know · **To what, where:** cheek, King · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, 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:pg976:21:36 # text = "I should be sorry for that," replied King Pluto, patting her cheek; for he really wished to be kind, if he had only known how. " 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 cop _ _ 5 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 11 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod:desc _ _ 12 Pluto Pluto PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 patting pat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 15 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 cheek cheek NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 for for SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 really really ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 wished wish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 23 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 24 cop _ _ 24 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 if if SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 only only ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 parataxis _ _ 31 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 30 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 33 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | should | Pluto King *= pluto* | | | | | for that; sorry *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Pluto King | | | | | | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **pat** | gerund | Pluto King *not said here* | Pluto's cheek | | | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheek=Experiencer | | 4 | **wish** | past | King | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 5 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | King *not said here* | | | | | kind *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **know** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive | | King | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | 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 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/21/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/21/37/) - ↑ back to [The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/21/)