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title: He drew Proserpina's attention to the rich veins of gold that were t… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He drew Proserpina's attention to the rich veins of gold that were to be seen among the rocks, and pointed to several places where one stroke of a pickaxe would loosen a bushel of diamonds. Who acts: King, one stroke, Proserpina. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegrana
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 2, sentence 8

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He drew Proserpina's attention to the rich veins of gold that were to be seen among the rocks, and pointed to several places where one stroke of a pickaxe would loosen a bushel of diamonds.

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**Who acts:** King, one stroke, Proserpina · **What happens:** draw, see, point, loosen, attend, stroke · **To what, where:** attention, rich veins, gold, several places, bushel, pickaxe

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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, one stroke, Proserpina), 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:pg976:21:8
# text = He drew Proserpina's attention to the rich veins of gold that were to be seen among the rocks, and pointed to several places where one stroke of a pickaxe would loosen a bushel of diamonds.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Proserpina	Proserpina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	veins	vein	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	_
17	among	among	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	pointed	point	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	33	advmod	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	stroke	stroke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	pickaxe	pickaxe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	loosen	loosen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl:relcl	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	bushel	bushel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **draw** | past | King | Proserpina's attention |  | the rich veins of gold |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent attention=Theme to vein=Destination |
| 2 | **see** | past · passive | King *not said here* | gold |  |  |  | among the rocks | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **point** | participle |  |  | several places |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to place=Recipient |
| 4 | **loosen** | would | one stroke of a pickaxe | a bushel of diamonds |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bushel=Patient |
| 5 | **attend** |  | Proserpina |  |  |  |  |  | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **stroke** |  |  | a pickaxe |  |  |  |  | nom stroke «act 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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