--- title: To tell you the truth, his three-headed mastiff would never let me p… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: To tell you the truth, his three-headed mastiff would never let me pass the gateway; for I should be compelled to take a sheaf of sunbeams along with me, and those, you know, are forbidden things in Pluto's kingdom." Who acts: headed mastiff, me, you. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Ha --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/22/72/) [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/) / 72 # Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 72 To tell you the truth, his three-headed mastiff would never let me pass the gateway; for I should be compelled to take a sheaf of sunbeams along with me, and those, you know, are forbidden things in Pluto's kingdom." **Who acts:** headed mastiff, me, you · **What happens:** tell, not let, pass, compel, take, know · **To what, where:** truth, you, me, gateway, I, sheaf · **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 (headed mastiff, me, you), 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:pg976:22:72 # text = To tell you the truth, his three-headed mastiff would never let me pass the gateway; for I should be compelled to take a sheaf of sunbeams along with me, and those, you know, are forbidden things in Pluto's kingdom." 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 2 iobj _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 8 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 headed headed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 mastiff mastiff NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 12 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 15 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 gateway gateway NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 20 for for SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 compelled compel VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 ccomp _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 sheaf sheaf NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 sunbeams sunbeam NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 31 along along ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 36 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 42 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 41 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux:pass _ _ 42 forbidden forbid VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 conj _ _ 43 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obj _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 45 Pluto Pluto PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 46 's 's PART POS _ 45 case _ _ 47 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | | the truth | you | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **let** | would | Pluto's headed mastiff | me | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **pass** | infinitive | me *not said here* | the gateway | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gateway=Trajectory | | 4 | **compel** | should · passive | | I | | | | | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | | 5 | **take** | to-infinitive | | a sheaf of sunbeams | | | | along me | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheaf=Theme | | 6 | **know** | present | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **forbid** | present · passive | | those | | Pluto's kingdom | | | tree rules | 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 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/22/71/) - next →: [sentence 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/22/73/) - ↑ back to [The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/22/)