--- title: "Why," said Phoebus--and as he spoke he kept touching his lyre so as… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: "Why," said Phoebus--and as he spoke he kept touching his lyre so as to make a thread of music run in and out among his words--"as the little damsel was gathering flowers (and she has really a very exquisite taste for flowers), she was suddenly snatched up by King Pluto, and carried off to his domin --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/22/58/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Tanglewood Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/) / [The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/22/) / 58 # Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 58 "Why," said Phoebus--and as he spoke he kept touching his lyre so as to make a thread of music run in and out among his words--"as the little damsel was gathering flowers (and she has really a very exquisite taste for flowers), she was suddenly snatched up by King Pluto, and carried off to his dominions. **Who acts:** Phoebus, touching, thread, little damsel, Pluto · **What happens:** say, speak, keep, touch, make, run · **To what, where:** lyre, words, flowers, damsel, dominions · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Phoebus, touching, thread, little damsel), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg976:22:58 # text = "Why," said Phoebus--and as he spoke he kept touching his lyre so as to make a thread of music run in and out among his words--"as the little damsel was gathering flowers (and she has really a very exquisite taste for flowers), she was suddenly snatched up by King Pluto, and carried off to his dominions. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 Phoebus Phoebus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 -- -- PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 as as SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 ccomp _ _ 14 touching touch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 csubj _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 lyre lyre NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 18 as as SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 ccomp _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 thread thread NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 music music NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 run run VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ _ 26 in in ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 out out ADV RB _ 26 conj _ _ 29 among among ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 -- -- PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 as as SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 damsel damsel NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 38 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 gathering gather VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 40 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obj _ _ 41 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 57 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 43 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 57 aux _ _ 45 really really ADV RB _ 49 advmod _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 47 very very ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 48 exquisite exquisite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 taste taste NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ _ 50 for for ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 51 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 49 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 52 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 54 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 57 nsubj:pass _ _ 55 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 57 aux:pass _ _ 56 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 57 advmod _ _ 57 snatched snatch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 conj _ _ 58 up up ADP RP _ 57 compound:prt _ _ 59 by by ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 60 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 61 nmod:desc _ _ 61 Pluto Pluto PROPN NNP Number=Sing 57 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 62 , , PUNCT , _ 64 punct _ _ 63 and and CCONJ CC _ 64 cc _ _ 64 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 65 off off ADP RP _ 64 compound:prt _ _ 66 to to ADP IN _ 68 case _ _ 67 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 68 nmod:poss _ _ 68 dominions dominion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 64 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 69 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Phoebus | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Phoebus | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **keep** | past | Phoebus | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **touch** | gerund | | Phoebus's lyre | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lyre=Co-Theme | | 5 | **make** | to-infinitive | touching | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 6 | **run** | present | a thread of music | | | Phoebus's words | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among word=Trajectory | | 7 | **gather** *in a quote* | past · progressive | the little damsel | flowers | | | | | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme | | 8 | **snatch up** *in a quote* | present · passive | Pluto King | damsel | | | | suddenly *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 9 | **carry off** *in a quote* | past | Phoebus *not said here* | | | Phoebus's dominions | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to dominion=Destination | | 10 | **word** | | Phoebus | | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/22/57/) - next →: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/22/59/) - ↑ back to [The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/22/)