--- title: He requested to be shown immediately into the king's presence; and P… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: He requested to be shown immediately into the king's presence; and Pluto, who heard his voice from the top of the stairs, and who loved to recreate himself with Quicksilver's merry talk, called out to him to come up. Who acts: Quicksilver, Pluto. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Quicksilver, Pluto), 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:pg976:23:50 # text = He requested to be shown immediately into the king's presence; and Pluto, who heard his voice from the top of the stairs, and who loved to recreate himself with Quicksilver's merry talk, called out to him to come up. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 requested request VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 shown show VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 xcomp _ _ 6 immediately immediately ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 into into ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 presence presence NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 Pluto Pluto PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 from from ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 stairs stair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 29 loved love VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 recreate recreate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 32 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 31 obj _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 34 Quicksilver quicksilver NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 35 's 's PART POS _ 34 case _ _ 36 merry merry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 talk talk NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 acl _ _ 40 out out ADP RP _ 39 compound:prt _ _ 41 to to ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obl _ _ 43 to to PART TO _ 44 mark _ _ 44 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 advcl _ _ 45 up up ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **request** | past | Quicksilver | | | | | | vn beg-58.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **show** | to-infinitive · passive | Quicksilver *not said here* | | | the king's presence | | immediately *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: into presence=Recipient | | 3 | **hear** | past | Pluto | Quicksilver's voice | | the top of the stairs | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent voice=Topic from top=Source | | 4 | **love** | past | | | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **recreate** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | Quicksilver | | | | with Quicksilver's merry talk | tree rules | | 6 | **call out** *speech: assert* | participle | | Quicksilver's merry talk *not said here* | Quicksilver | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | | 7 | **come up** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **talk** | | Quicksilver | | | | | | nom talk «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | 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 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/23/49/) - next →: [sentence 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/23/51/) - ↑ back to [The Pomegranate Seeds., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/23/)