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title: Ascending a lofty flight of steps, she entered the portal, and found… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascending a lofty flight of steps, she entered the portal, and found the royal household in very great alarm about the queen's baby. Who acts: Ceres. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 3, sentence 98

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Ascending a lofty flight of steps, she entered the portal, and found the royal household in very great alarm about the queen's baby.

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**Who acts:** Ceres · **What happens:** ascend, enter, find · **To what, where:** lofty flight, portal, royal household, great alarm

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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 (Ceres), 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:pg976:22:98
# text = Ascending a lofty flight of steps, she entered the portal, and found the royal household in very great alarm about the queen's baby.
1	Ascending	ascend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	portal	portal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	alarm	alarm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
22	about	about	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascend** | gerund | Ceres *not said here* | a lofty flight of steps |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme flight=Trajectory |
| 2 | **enter** | past | Ceres | the portal |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme portal=Destination |
| 3 | **find** | past | Ceres *not said here* | the royal household |  | great alarm about the queen's baby |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent household=Topic |

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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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