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title: Then, sending for the head cook, he gave strict orders that all sort… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, sending for the head cook, he gave strict orders that all sorts of delicacies, such as young people are usually fond of, should be set before Proserpina. Who acts: cook. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 38

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Then, sending for the head cook, he gave strict orders that all sorts of delicacies, such as young people are usually fond of, should be set before Proserpina.

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**Who acts:** cook · **What happens:** send, give, be, set, sort · **To what, where:** strict orders, sorts, delicacies

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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 (cook), 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:pg976:21:38
# text = Then, sending for the head cook, he gave strict orders that all sorts of delicacies, such as young people are usually fond of, should be set before Proserpina.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	sending	send	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	strict	strict	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	obj	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	delicacies	delicacy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	22	case	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	parataxis	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
28	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	_
31	before	before	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | gerund | cook *not said here* |  |  |  | then | for the head cook | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** | past | cook | strict orders |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | such young people; fond, usually *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **set** | should · passive |  | all sorts of delicacies |  |  | before Proserpina |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme that=Destination |
| 5 | **sort** |  |  | delicacies |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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