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title: To the queen's astonishment and joy, she could perceive no token of… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: To the queen's astonishment and joy, she could perceive no token of the child's being injured by the hot fire in which he had lain. Who acts: queen, hot fire, Demophoon. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 20

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To the queen's astonishment and joy, she could perceive no token of the child's being injured by the hot fire in which he had lain.

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**Who acts:** queen, hot fire, Demophoon · **What happens:** perceive, injure, lie, astonish · **To what, where:** token, child, hot fire

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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 (queen, hot fire, Demophoon), 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:pg976:23:20
# text = To the queen's astonishment and joy, she could perceive no token of the child's being injured by the hot fire in which he had lain.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	perceive	perceive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	token	token	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	injured	injure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	obl	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	lain	lie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perceive** | could | queen | no token |  |  |  | to the queen's astonishment and joy | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent token=Theme to astonishment=be' |
| 2 | **injure** | gerund · passive | the hot fire | the child |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lie** | past · perfect | Demophoon |  |  | the hot fire |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in which=Location |
| 4 | **astonish** |  | the queen |  |  |  |  |  | nom astonishment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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