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title: At length, in her despair, she came to the dreadful resolution that… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At length, in her despair, she came to the dreadful resolution that not a stalk of grain, nor a blade of grass, not a potato, nor a turnip, nor any other vegetable that was good for man or beast to eat, should be suffered to grow until her daughter were restored. Who acts: queen, dreadful resolution
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# Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4, sentence 35

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At length, in her despair, she came to the dreadful resolution that not a stalk of grain, nor a blade of grass, not a potato, nor a turnip, nor any other vegetable that was good for man or beast to eat, should be suffered to grow until her daughter were restored.

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**Who acts:** queen, dreadful resolution, other vegetable · **What happens:** come, not stalk, be, eat, suffer, grow · **To what, where:** blade, length, daughter

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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, dreadful resolution, other vegetable), 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:pg976:23:35
# text = At length, in her despair, she came to the dreadful resolution that not a stalk of grain, nor a blade of grass, not a potato, nor a turnip, nor any other vegetable that was good for man or beast to eat, should be suffered to grow until her daughter were restored.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	resolution	resolution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	stalk	stalk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	23	cc	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	blade	blade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	potato	potato	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	33	cc	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	turnip	turnip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	38	cc	_	_
36	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	38	det	_	_
37	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	vegetable	vegetable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	_
39	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
41	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	acl:relcl	_	_
42	for	for	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
44	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
49	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
50	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	aux:pass	_	_
51	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	parataxis	_	_
52	to	to	PART	TO	_	53	mark	_	_
53	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	xcomp	_	_
54	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
55	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
56	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nsubj	_	_
57	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	aux:pass	_	_
58	restored	restore	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	53	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | queen | a blade of grass and a potato |  | length and queen's despair |  | to the dreadful resolution; a turnip *obl* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to resolution=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **not** **stalk** |  | the dreadful resolution |  |  |  |  | of grain | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | any other vegetable |  |  |  |  | for man or beast; good *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **eat** | to-infinitive | any other vegetable *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **suffer** | should · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **grow** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **restore** | past · passive |  | queen's daughter |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme |
| 8 | **despair** |  | queen |  |  |  |  |  | nom despair «state intransitive»: 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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