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title: And when they saw only a sad and anxious woman, with a torch in her… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And when they saw only a sad and anxious woman, with a torch in her hand and a wreath of withered poppies on her head, they spoke rudely, and sometimes threatened to set the dogs upon her. Who acts: menials. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, wit
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 78

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And when they saw only a sad and anxious woman, with a torch in her hand and a wreath of withered poppies on her head, they spoke rudely, and sometimes threatened to set the dogs upon her.

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**Who acts:** menials · **What happens:** see, wither, speak, threaten, set · **To what, where:** sad woman, dogs · **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 (menials), 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:pg976:21:78
# text = And when they saw only a sad and anxious woman, with a torch in her hand and a wreath of withered poppies on her head, they spoke rudely, and sometimes threatened to set the dogs upon her.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	anxious	anxious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	torch	torch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	wreath	wreath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	withered	wither	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	poppies	poppy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
30	rudely	rudely	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	34	advmod	_	_
34	threatened	threaten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	_
39	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | menials *= menial* | a sad woman |  |  |  | with a torch in child's hand and a wreath of withered poppies on child's head | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **wither** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | menials *= menial* |  |  |  |  | rudely *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **threaten** | participle | menials *= menial* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **set** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | menials *= menial* *not said here* | the dogs |  |  |  | upon child | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme upon she=Destination |

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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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