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title: At the portal of every palace, too, she made so loud a summons that… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At the portal of every palace, too, she made so loud a summons that the menials hurried to throw open the gate, thinking that it must be some great king or queen, who would demand a banquet for supper and a stately chamber to repose in. Who acts: child, menials, gate, queen. A sentence of «Tanglewoo
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 77

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At the portal of every palace, too, she made so loud a summons that the menials hurried to throw open the gate, thinking that it must be some great king or queen, who would demand a banquet for supper and a stately chamber to repose in.

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**Who acts:** child, menials, gate, queen · **What happens:** make, hurry, throw, open, think, be · **To what, where:** summons, portal, gate, great king, banquet · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (child, menials, gate, queen), 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:pg976:21:77
# text = At the portal of every palace, too, she made so loud a summons that the menials hurried to throw open the gate, thinking that it must be some great king or queen, who would demand a banquet for supper and a stately chamber to repose in.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	portal	portal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	too	too	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	loud	loud	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	summons	summon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	menials	menial	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	hurried	hurry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
29	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	cop	_	_
31	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	33	det	_	_
32	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	ccomp	_	_
34	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj	_	_
38	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	demand	demand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	acl:relcl	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	banquet	banquet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	for	for	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	stately	stately	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
49	repose	repose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	advcl	_	_
50	in	in	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | child | a summons |  | the portal of every palace |  | loud *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent summon=Product |
| 2 | **hurry** | past | the menials | a summons |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **throw** | to-infinitive | the menials *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **open** | infinitive | the menials *not said here* | the gate |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gate=Theme |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | the menials *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** | must | gate | some great king or queen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **demand** *speech: request* | would | queen | a banquet and a stately chamber |  |  |  | for supper | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme banquet=Precondition |
| 8 | **repose** | to-infinitive | queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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