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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 41

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But he left the matter entirely to his cook, who, like all other cooks, considered nothing fit to eat unless it were rich pastry, or highly-seasoned meat, or spiced sweet cakes--things which Proserpina's mother had never given her, and the smell of which quite took away her appetite, instead of sharpening it.

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**Who acts:** King, matter · **What happens:** leave, consider, eat, be, spice, not give · **To what, where:** matter, cook, nothing, rich pastry, sweet cakes, mother

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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, matter), 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:pg976:21:41
# text = But he left the matter entirely to his cook, who, like all other cooks, considered nothing fit to eat unless it were rich pastry, or highly-seasoned meat, or spiced sweet cakes--things which Proserpina's mother had never given her, and the smell of which quite took away her appetite, instead of sharpening it.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	cooks	cook	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	considered	consider	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	18	obj	_	_
20	fit	fit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	pastry	pastry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	highly	highly	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	seasoned	seasoned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	spiced	spice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
37	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	conj	_	_
41	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	47	obj	_	_
42	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	's	's	PART	POS	_	42	case	_	_
44	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj:pass	_	_
45	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
46	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	47	advmod	_	_
47	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	acl:relcl	_	_
48	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	56	obl	_	_
55	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
56	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	acl:relcl	_	_
57	away	away	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
58	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	59	nmod:poss	_	_
59	appetite	appetite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
61	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	63	mark	_	_
62	of	of	ADP	IN	_	61	fixed	_	_
63	sharpening	sharpen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	56	advcl	_	_
64	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	63	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | King | the matter | King's cook like all other cooks |  |  | entirely *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent matter=Theme to cook=Recipient |
| 2 | **consider** | past | King *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent nothing=Attribute |
| 3 | **eat** | to-infinitive | King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | matter | rich pastry or seasoned meat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **spice** | participle | King *not said here* | sweet cakes and things |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent cake=Destination |
| 6 | **not** **give** | past · perfect · passive |  | Proserpina's mother |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **take away** | past |  | child's appetite |  |  |  | of the smell; away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent appetite=Theme of which=Initial\_Location |
| 8 | **sharpen** | gerund |  | appetite |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: 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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