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title: She treated him as if he were her own child, and allowed neither the… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She treated him as if he were her own child, and allowed neither the king nor the queen to say whether he should be bathed in warm or cold water, or what he should eat, or how often he should take the air, or when he should be put to bed. Who acts: Mother, Prince, king. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tal
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 2

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She treated him as if he were her own child, and allowed neither the king nor the queen to say whether he should be bathed in warm or cold water, or what he should eat, or how often he should take the air, or when he should be put to bed.

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**Who acts:** Mother, Prince, king · **What happens:** treat, be, allow, say, bath, eat · **To what, where:** Prince, king, warm water, air · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mother, Prince, king), 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:pg976:23:2
# text = She treated him as if he were her own child, and allowed neither the king nor the queen to say whether he should be bathed in warm or cold water, or what he should eat, or how often he should take the air, or when he should be put to bed.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	treated	treat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	10	case	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	fixed	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	allowed	allow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	16	cc:preconj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	19	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
22	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	bathed	bath	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	ccomp	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	_
31	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
34	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	37	obj	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
39	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
40	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	41	advmod	_	_
41	often	often	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
42	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
43	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	conj	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
48	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
49	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	53	advmod	_	_
50	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
51	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
52	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	aux:pass	_	_
53	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	conj	_	_
54	to	to	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **treat** | past | Mother |  | Prince |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | past | Prince |  |  |  |  | as Mother's own child | tree rules |
| 3 | **allow** | past | Mother *not said here* | the king nor the queen |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer king=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the king nor the queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **bath** | should · passive |  | Prince |  | warm water |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **eat** | should | Prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |
| 7 | **take** | should | Prince | the air |  |  |  | often *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme |
| 8 | **put** | should · passive |  | Prince |  |  |  | to bed | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |

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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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