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title: Now, if King Pluto had been cunning enough to offer Proserpina some… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now, if King Pluto had been cunning enough to offer Proserpina some fruit, or bread and milk (which was the simple fare to which the child had always been accustomed), it is very probable that she would soon have been tempted to eat it. Who acts: King, milk, fruit. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» b
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 40

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Now, if King Pluto had been cunning enough to offer Proserpina some fruit, or bread and milk (which was the simple fare to which the child had always been accustomed), it is very probable that she would soon have been tempted to eat it.

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**Who acts:** King, milk, fruit · **What happens:** cunn, offer, be, accustom, tempt, eat · **To what, where:** bread, fruit, Proserpina, simple fare, child

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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 (King, milk, fruit), 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:pg976:21:40
# text = Now, if King Pluto had been cunning enough to offer Proserpina some fruit, or bread and milk (which was the simple fare to which the child had always been accustomed), it is very probable that she would soon have been tempted to eat it.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	39	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	aux	_	_
8	cunning	cunn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	39	advcl	_	_
9	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
12	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	fare	fare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	obl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
31	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	33	advmod	_	_
32	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	accustomed	accustom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
37	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
38	very	very	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	probable	probable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
40	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
41	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj:pass	_	_
42	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
43	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	46	advmod	_	_
44	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	aux	_	_
45	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	46	aux:pass	_	_
46	tempted	tempt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	advcl	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	xcomp	_	_
49	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	39	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cunn** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · progressive | King | bread and milk |  |  |  | enough *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **offer** | to-infinitive | King *not said here* | some fruit | Proserpina |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent proserpina=Goal fruit=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past | milk | the simple fare |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **accustom** | past · perfect · passive |  | the child |  |  |  | to the simple fare; always *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | fruit |  |  |  | now | probable *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **tempt** | would · perfect · passive |  | child |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 7 | **eat** | to-infinitive |  | fruit |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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